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Doing a literature review takes time

  Doing a literature review takes time — a lot of time. Here's a new workflow that will supercharge your literature review. You can learn this workflow in 15 min. Go to litmaps(dot)com. Cick on the Sign Up/Login in the top-right corner. Click on "Your Library" in the left taskbar and then on "Create a Collection." Choose a name for your collection. Once you have created a collection, click on the blue "Add articles" button. Select "Search for Articles" to look up articles. You can look up articles by title, keyword, or DOI. Litmaps will give you a list of articles. Select an article you find most relevant. Litmaps will add the selected article to your collection. Next click on the article in your collection and Litmaps will open a dialog box for you. Click on "Seed Map" in the dialog box. Litmaps will create a map of articles related to your article. In the map: Along the X-axis, you will see articles from old to new. Along the Y-ax...
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Academic writing can seem daunting.

  Academic writing can seem daunting. Here's a breakdown of the writing process into smaller, manageable steps (and free apps to help you with every step): 1. Brainstorm Research Questions Use ChatGPT to brainstorm research questions. Prompt: I am writing a paper on [your topic]. Could you help me brainstorm research questions? The suggestions ChatGPT will give you will be broad. Ask follow up questions to narrow down. You can also use Bing (in Creative Mode) to brainstorm research questions. In my current project, I am exploring two of the research questions Bing has suggested here. 2. Literature Review Use a combination of the following apps to gather relevant papers for literature review: Elicit, Inciteful, R Discovery, Research Rabbit 3. Reading and Taking Notes Download Zotero and create a collection for your project. Then put all your papers in that collection. Use Zotero to read and annotate papers. You can also take detailed notes in Zotero. 4. Reading Assistant If you need...
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Forget Google Scholar

Forget Google Scholar. Here are seven AI-powered apps to fast-track your literature review. Research Rabbit Connected Papers Inciteful Litmaps Elicit Iris Scite Here's a comparison to help you choose the best one for your work: 1. Research Rabbit • Helps you visualize connections between multiple papers • Can create interactive graphs with one or more papers • Helps you discover huge author networks • You can make collections/folders of papers for better organization • Extracts all references and citations from a given paper • Integrates with Zotero Pricing: Free 2. Connected Papers • Takes a single paper and creates a graph of related papers • Also lets you add another "origin" paper. That way you it will show you new papers that are related to both of your origin papers • Graphs are not interactive • Lets you save papers • Saves your graph history  • Gives you prior works, and derivative works • No Zotero integration Pricing: Free: 5 graphs a month Paid plan: $3/month (...
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