Tools for Literature Review

Summarizing tools that can help with literature review for research papers.

Search engines

• Google Scholar
• Semantic Scholar

Semantic search

• Consensus
  • An AI-powered academic search engine.
• Elicit

Citation network

Citation network tools help visualize and explore relationships between research papers. It starts from one or more seed papers and builds a network of related works based on citations.

These tools can help identify influential papers, discover emerging trends, and find gaps in the literature. The generated citation networks can be used to guide literature reviews and tell research stories.

• Litmaps
  • How to do a literature review: 5 minute guide with Litmaps
  • Tell Your Research Story with Litmaps
• ResearchRabbit
  • How to get started with ResearchRabbit
• Connected Papers

Reading

• NotebookLM
  • An AI research assistant by Google that helps read, understand, and summarize pdf files, videos, and web pages.
• Scholarcy
  • Summarizes research papers and highlights key points.

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