Following literature - What is a good configurable publication notifier? I would like to keep up to date with public literature in my research field. All relevant publications are of too big a volume to follow and so the problem invites some automatic mechanism of filtering and notification.

Do you know of any good mechanism (desktop\online application etc.) that could be configured to alert on new publications according to specific criteria?

Three criteria that I would think would be very useful in such a mechanism are :


Follow by researcher name - I would like to know of any new publication Prof. X was involved with.
Configurable  citation filter - I would like to know of any new publication which cites any of Prof. X papers or a specific one.
And\Or\Not keywords - I would like to know of any new publication that has both keywords A and (B or C).


Do you know of such existing app? Any recommendation to such (or similar) applied functionality would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Your institution (for example its Harman Science Library) and many others have the database product Web of Knowledge. Precisely the alert criteria that you described, and more, are available through that product.

The selection of journals covered in its flagship collection, Web of Science, is curated with the goal to cover all of, and more than, the core literature of all scholarly fields, naturally without attempting to cover all journals in existence. Alerts in Web of Knowledge can also simultaneously search up to a dozen other collections including Medline, depending on your institution's subscription. You can see the collections in the subscription that is available to you by choosing the "Select a Database" tab. You can browse and search the journal lists for the various collections.