Most Arxiv papers from Google/FB/OpenAI get a pretty good review on Twitter and /r/MachineLearning.
Some Arxiv papers say "under review for NIPS (or whatever)".
To the above poster, in ML journals aren't the main means of publication. You want to look at conferences like ICLR, NIPS, CVPR, etc.
(I kind of assumed the poster meant "journals or conference proceedings")
[1] https://openreview.net/group?id=NIPS.cc/2017/Workshop/Autodi...
I made https://chillee.github.io/OpenReviewExplorer/, so I'd love if all conferences used openreview.
This isn't how science work, this isn't how anything works
I don't think making these lists is necessarily incompatible with the peer review process. Orals or spotlight presentations at conferences are effectively "best of" lists anyways.