How to do literature review

9. How to do literature review#

Literature review is the first step towards research.

Google Scholar is my top choice for finding papers. Other useful search engines include Scopus, Web of Science, Research Gate, etc. You may want to try different combination of keywords to find the right articles.
Elicit An AI tool for finding papers. I often use this along with Google Scholar for best results.
Litmaps A useful AI tool if you have already found one paper. It can generate a map showing all the cited and citing papers based on a single paper you provided.
SCISPACE An AI tool for finding literature. Similar to Elicit.
Undermind An AI tool for finding literature. Similar to Elicit and SCISPACE.
Research Rabbit An AI tool for finding literature. Similar to Litmaps.
Connect papers A tool for finding literature. Similar to Litmaps and Research Rabbit.

Start with a broad search using Elicit or Undermind by asking a question related to your research topic.
Use Google Scholar to find more papers by using different combinations of keywords.
Save the papers you find useful in a reference manager like Zotero. Read the abstracts to further narrow down the papers that’s highly relevant.
Use those papers as seeds to find more papers using Litmaps or Research Rabbit.
Once you have a good collection of papers, read them in detail and take notes. You can then use Obsidian to organize your notes and thoughts.
Use the notes you took to write a literature review. You can use AI tools like Claude to help you with the writing process.

An article on how to do literature review using some of the AI tools like litmaps. They use a method to select the top 10% recent papers, 10% highly cited papers, and 10% review papers to start the review process.