Source: https://aarontay.medium.com/3-new-tools-to-try-for-literature-mapping-connected-papers-inciteful-and-litmaps-a399f27622a

3 new tools to try for Literature mapping — Connected Papers, Inciteful and Litmaps

Aaron Tay

1 day ago·13 min read

Tired of entering keywords and getting thousands of hits and not sure where to start your literature review? Or having the opposite problem and entering a keyword and getting few relevant results?

You are in luck, we are seeing the rise of a new class of innovative literature review mapping tools, built on the backs of increasingly open metadata and citations coupled with possibly some new machine learning techniques (particularly those that use machine learning on full text for citation contexts).

I track as many as a dozen such tools out there but here I list three of the latest and in my opinion slickest tools that are currently out there.

In rough order of complexity

1. Connected Papers — Simple but powerful one shot visualization tool using one seed paper
2. Inciteful — Customizable tool , use multiple seed papers in an iterative process
3. Litmaps —Use multiple seed papers and overlapping maps, combining search with citation relationships and visualization
4. Honorary mentions — CoCites, Citation Gecko, VOSviewer, CitationChaser
5. Citation context/sentiment tools — scite, Semantic Scholar