Literature mapping tools help researchers find articles by exploring connections between publications. Most use one or more 'seed papers' as a starting point. They often use citations (articles citing or cited in the seed papers), or articles that appear in the bibliographies of several papers), algorithms and artificial intelligence. The results are displayed as a map, with the closest articles grouped together.
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- Freemium
- Uses co-citation and bibliographic coupling to find articles that have highly overlapping citations and references
- 5 graphs per month with a free account
- Uses the Semantic Scholar database
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- Free
- No account creation required. Builds a citation network graph from one or several seed paper(s), or shows the connections between two papers
- There is a Zotero plugin allowing to create graphs directly from an item of your Zotero library
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- Freemium
- Enter keywords, the DOI or the name of an author, and find articles linked to it through citations
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- Open source and free
- No cookies, no user-tracking
- Allows to build a citation network, starting from a source article
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- Non-profit and open source
- Ask a research question and the results will be presented on a map with the 100 most relevant documents grouped by sub-topics
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- Free (users can make donations)
- Does not sell users' data to third parties
- Rather sophisticated, it encourages jumping from paper to paper without getting lost in the rabbit hole
- You can create collections of papers inside Research Rabbit and synchronise them with your Zotero library; you can also import a Zotero collection into Research Rabbit for further exploration
- Allows to explore the network of researchers, to understand who publishes with whom
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