{"id":8756,"date":"2022-11-14T16:25:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T16:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/?p=8756"},"modified":"2022-11-14T16:25:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T16:25:55","slug":"supercharge-your-literature-review-with-these-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/supercharge-your-literature-review-with-these-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercharge Your Literature Review With These Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When starting a new project, conducting a literature review of the field can be one of the most daunting prospects. Not only do you need to get through a mountain of research papers, you also need to work out <em>which<\/em> mountain of papers to get through. You don&#8217;t want to start a project only to realise a few weeks (or months!) in that you missed a key paper which would have completely changed the course of your research. Luckily, there are now several handy tools which can help speed up this process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Paper Digest<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>To start off your literature review, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdigest.org\/review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paper Digest<\/a> can generate a list of papers for a topic as well as an automated summary of them. The selected works are by no means exhaustive, and the summary can be a bit dodgy at times, but it&#8217;s a great starting point, especially if it&#8217;s in an unfamiliar starting point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Connected Papers<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve identified some key papers in the field, you will then need to expand your search to other relevant papers. This is where a graph based search can be very useful, highlighting a web of related and relevant papers. With <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.connectedpapers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Connected Papers<\/a>, you provide a seed paper which is used to generate a web of other relevant papers, connected by citations. You can also filter for derivative or prior works to your seed paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Litmaps<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you should have a decent library of papers stored in your reference manager of choice. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.litmaps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Litmaps<\/a> lets you upload this library and visualise it in a graph view, as well as automatically expanding it to include any other connected papers you might have missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When starting a new project, conducting a literature review of the field can be one of the most daunting prospects. 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