{"id":6209,"date":"2024-05-01T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T23:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/?p=6209"},"modified":"2024-05-01T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T23:54:58","slug":"literature-mapping-on-steroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/2024\/05\/01\/literature-mapping-on-steroids\/","title":{"rendered":"Literature mapping on steroids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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AI has put literature mapping on steroids, making it easier for you to find connected research. Literature mapping tools utilise artificial intelligence to enable users to explore and discover connections between peer reviewed articles on a research topic, based on citation networks and\/or similarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subject librarians have been exploring these mapping tools to find out how they work, and their pros and cons. And how well they work with New Zealand and M\u0101ori topics, plus Massey\u2019s research disciplines. This will depend on the discipline, and the research area so your mileage will vary! We didn\u2019t think they were great for Creative Arts but in most other areas worked well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many tools already available, including ResearchRabbit<\/a>, Litmaps<\/a>, Elicit<\/a>, Keenious<\/a> to name just a few. Maquarie University Library has a guide to the most popular<\/a>, and librarians at Texas Tech University<\/a> have produced a daunting but probably still non-comprehensive list!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tools are generally aimed at postgraduates or researchers and they can assist users with:
\u00b7 Tracking and visualising connections between articles or authors
\u00b7 Visualising citation and\/or authorship connections and relationships
\u00b7 Discovering articles based on papers you’ve already read
\u00b7 Understanding research areas visually
\u00b7 Generating or visualising search concepts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typically, tools have a limited free version and various subscription levels. Some have institutional subscription options, but Massey at this stage doesn\u2019t subscribe to any. This means Massey users should check Discover to see if they have access to articles as the tools don\u2019t allow linking through to content that Massey subscribes to. New citations found can be exported to EndNote and Zotero. Tools vary where they draw citations from, which can affect their comprehensiveness. Usually the citation metadata comes from one or more open source databases such as Open Alex<\/a>, Crossref<\/a>, PubMed<\/a>, and Semantic Scholar<\/a>. Monash Health Library\u2019s useful comparison graph of common tools covers where citations come from, import and export options and other useful info, including what they feel the tool is best used for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What help can subject librarians offer? At this stage we\u2019re not in a position to officially recommend any specific tool, however we think there\u2019s enough potential for people to explore the tools and see if they find them useful for their research. Let us know what you think \u2013 are you currently using any AI literature mapping tool for your research? What support do you think the Library should provide?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AI has put literature mapping on steroids, making it easier for you to find connected research. Literature mapping tools utilise artificial intelligence to enable users to explore and discover connections between peer reviewed articles on a research topic, based on citation networks and\/or similarity. Subject librarians have been exploring these mapping tools to find out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[288,289],"class_list":["post-6209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ai","tag-literature-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6216,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions\/6216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}