Litmaps: Search Scientific Literature With Interactive Citation Maps
⚖️ Our Verdict
Litmaps is an app highly recommended for researchers who want to visualize research articles by mapping them out. This time-based citation network involves helpful research tools and project state for you to organize your literature review.
The program also allows a network search that offers highly connected articles. It’s going to make your BSc and PhD projects much easier because you can build up key articles through targeted search results. You’ll also get updated every time a new article connected to your study is published!
It’s a free, interactive app that requires no sign-up, making it better than other productivity apps for academics. However, a collaboration feature would be great for Litmaps!
👍 Pros
👍 Interactive visuals
👍 Map out your literature review
👍 Discover scientific literature and share
👍 Free👍 No sign-up needed
👎 Cons
👎 No collaboration feature
🌟 About Litmaps
Advancing BSc and PhD research projects entails navigating the appropriate scientific literature in a sea of resources. Academic search engines and reference manages are usually utilized for find articles for literature reviews. However, the results shown on these tools don’t offer a clear context of results.
Litmaps was built to solve this problem by building a Literature Map for your project. Through this “litmap”, you can visually see connections between papers.
Links to your map are shown on your future keyword search and they are ranked based on these connections for you to target your research topic and understand why this paper is important.
🎁 What’s In It For You?
You already know that Litmaps lets you create literature maps or “litmaps” of available scientific literature for your research topic. This productivity tool lets you import data from BibTeX, ORCID, Zotero, Endnote, and Mendeley to create interactive visualizations of authors, keywords, and bibliographies. You also get updates when papers related to your project are published!
What’s more, Litmaps features suggestions radar that recommends papers that share citations with your project. Simply make a keyword search and enjoy the endless possibilities of discovering academic articles for your review of related literature!
Do all of these for free because it’s currently in early access. You don’t need to create an account to get started too!
🖥️ How Does It Work?
- Search a topic on Litmaps.
2. See article results on the left and citation mapping on the right.
3. Click on an article to see the articles it cites and are cited in.
💲 Pricing Plans & Support
Litmaps is a free app since it is in early access. Simply dive right in and start searching for papers that are relevant to your research.
📍 The Competition
👍 Pros
👍 Gather different types of articles, books, artworks, recordings
👍 Organize items based on research topic on collections
👍 Create citations and bibliographies
👍 Collaborate with research by sharing items
👎 Cons
👎 Paid application
🙋♀️🙋♂️🙋 Testimonials
I’ve used this product and honestly, I like the idea behind it, Good job.
– Elham Madh, iOS Developer & UI/UX Designer
Fascinating idea. Trying to wrap my head around how many nodes will appear from Das Kapital
– Ravi Bajnath, Google Murray Bookchin
This will be very helpful for me. I just started my masters thesis in HCI.
-Amos Gyamfi, Digital Designer from Helsinki, Finland
