Your Literature Review Assistant
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Notable Features: "Literature Connector" visualizes links between two different papers. Provides PageRank of papers for any research question
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Core Abilities: Map out networks of scholarly papers from a seed paper or bibliography, using citation graph analysis to reveal related and influential works, Identify key papers, authors, and institutions in a field via network algorithms – find highly cited or bridging literature that might be overlooked by keyword search, Connect research domains with a “Literature Connector” – visualize how two disparate papers or topics are linked through intermediate citations in an interactive graph, Export discovered references (e.g. download results as a BibTeX file) to integrate with reference managers and support further review
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Limitations/ Risks: Dependent on citation data – papers not well-indexed or lacking citation info won’t show up, and recent works with few citations may be undervalued in the network, Provides no full-text analysis or summaries – relevance is inferred from citation links, so users must read papers to ascertain quality and context.
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Platform/ Integrations: Web app, connects to Zotero, Exports as BibTex, RIS, Mendeley
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Pricing:
Free. (Web tool, no login or payment required)
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Tutorials/ Reviews
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