Litmaps Webinar: April 2024

This recording of our fourth Litmaps Webinar covers everything you need to know about accelerating your literature review and managing your research project with Litmaps.

​In this Webinar, we covered how to:
​​​- Quickly find key papers on your research topic
Find all the relevant literature for your project
Stay organized for your literature review
Get notified on newly released, important research

​​​​​Learn how to use Litmaps to help you better explore, understand and contribute to scientific literature.

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0:32 What is Litmaps?
2:54 Getting Started with Litmaps
Finding your "Starting Paper"
3:47 Selecting a "starting paper"
4:44 Digression: Papers vs Articles, Info about Litmaps database
Introducing your First Litmap
8:30 Create Map with starting article
9:44 Explaining the Map
10:28 Explaining the Map: How papers are visualized by axes
12:54 Save papers you find (Tags)
14:04 How to make a new Map for any paper
15:24 Summary of first part
Advanced Search Techniques and Tips
15:47 Grow your Map and find more relevant articles
16:46 “More like this”
17:54 Keyword search
18:44 Switching algorithm
18:62 How the Litmaps algorithm works
19:43 Algorithm choice: Semantic similarity
20:11 Algorithm choice: Co-authorship
20:54 Free vs Pro, algorithms and feature access
21:06 What else you can do with Maps (Explore, Design and Monitor)
21:54 Design mode
22:46 Recap and Introducing Monitor
Stay up-to-date with Monitored Searches
22:58 Monitor
Exporting
23:25 Exporting
23:34 Exporting from Map
23:44 Export from Tag
23:53 Export a specific paper
24:12 Sharing
Q&A Section
25:16 Q&A: Importing from EndNote and other reference managers
26:22 Q&A: Selecting a good starting paper
28:13 Q&A: Do we have journal filters?
29:50 Q&A: Why can’t I find a paper in Litmaps?
31:42 Q&A: Why is my paper missing citations or references?
31:55 Q&A: Can you select only peer-reviewd articles?
35:20 Q&A: What is momentum?
36:11 Q&A: How is Litmaps different from VOSviewer, ConnectedPapers and Web of Science?
38:12 Q&A: Examples of published papers that have used Litmaps?
38:44 Q&A: How to use Litmaps with Zotero?
40:19 Q&A: Is there an option for summary of articles?
40:49 Q&A: What does the node (circle) size on Maps mean?
Conclusion
41:19 Teach with Litmaps: Our course
43:16 Conclusion


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Resources

Teach Lit Review and Research Methods with Litmaps: Our "Mastering Literature Review with Litmaps" Course,
https://www.litmaps.com/about/teach-w...

Complete Guide to Literature Review with Litmaps 2024
https://docs.litmaps.com/en/articles/...

Litmaps Database – FAQ
https://docs.litmaps.com/en/articles/...