9. How to do literature review#

Literature review is the first step towards research.

9.1. Tools#

  • 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.

9.2. Tutorials#

  • 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.