Goldey-Beacom students, if you’ve got a research paper or thesis this semester, your college has you covered with Litmaps Pro. Sign up with your gbc.edu email and you’ll have full access, including Zotero sync and email alerts for new papers in your field. Thanks to @GBCEdu for making this available to everyone on campus. 📚 Go to the Litmaps app here ➡️ app.litmaps.com/

Learn how to build a smarter, faster literature review workflow using three of the most powerful tools available to researchers right now. Ilya Shabanov @Artifexx will show you how to use Litmaps, Zotero, and Obsidian together to discover literature, organize your notes, and build a research knowledge base that actually makes writing easier. 📅 30th September 🕔 9:00 PM London / 1:00 PM Los Angeles / 9:00 AM Wellington 💻 Google Meet. Free to join 🎥 Can't make it live? Register for the recording. Sign-up for free ⬇️ luma.com/litmaps-amjz

Don't know where to start your literature review? Spending hours finding papers that lead nowhere? @Faheem_uh is hosting a live session on Thursday 23 July to show you how to do it properly with Litmaps. 📅 Thursday 23 July 🕔 5pm BST / 12pm ET / 9am PT Sign up: luma.com/7zdamcm0

When a field is new to you, look for the most-cited papers from the last five years. They're usually the ones shaping the current conversation.

Want to really see a researcher's impact? It’s hard to grasp a researcher’s full impact just by reading a few papers. A visual literature map helps you see their entire body of work and its influence on the field. 🗺️ Create a Litmap of a researcher’s work: 1️⃣ Find their papers (e.g., via Scopus) 2️⃣ Download as a BibTeX 3️⃣ Import into Litmaps 4️⃣ Visualize their contributions over time in the Litmap 5️⃣ Click "Explore Related Articles" to see work based on theirs 6️⃣ Filter based on the date of publication to see only recent papers - this is the impact their research has today! Check out this example Litmap on Dane deQuilettes' solar energy research and the future research based on it! ⚡ _________________ We're on a mission to help accelerate impactful science. Join us. ▶ Follow us for research tips at @LitmapsApp

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Struggling to pick a research topic? It’s easy to get buried in PDFs with no clear direction. The better approach? 👉 Map the field first. Here’s a simple 5-step process to do it 👇 Step 1: Start with a seed paper Pick one paper you know. Map its connections with Litmaps to see who it cites & who cites it. Step 2: Review the signals Look at the authors, methods, and ideas that dominate this paper's local network. Step 3: Expand your map Add more papers. You’ll learn not just by reading, but by seeing how papers connect. Step 4: Map the whole field Track sub-topics, spot different directions, and notice the gaps no one has filled. Step 5: Choose your topic with confidence From this bird’s-eye view, you’ll know what’s exciting, relevant, and meaningful. 💡 Why this works: By building a structured overview of the field you can see what matters, what’s missing, and where you can contribute. 👉 How did you choose your research topic: by accident, advice, or strategy? #PhDLife #ResearchTips #LiteratureReview #AcademicWriting #Litmaps

🔎 Struggling with your literature review? Most researchers face these 5 problems at some point. But few of us have clear strategies on how to get past them. Here's how to tackle each of these with literature maps (aka Litmaps): 1️⃣ Overwhelming process → Use a simple search strategy Start with a seed paper (a key paper in your field) and use Litmaps’ citation network to expand your search strategically instead of aimlessly browsing databases. 2️⃣ Too many papers to read → Prioritize the most relevant Instead of skimming hundreds of papers, Litmaps highlights key connections between works, helping you identify which papers matter most for your research. 3️⃣ How does it all connect? → Visualize the literature Litmaps builds an interactive citation map, making it easy to see relationships between studies, spot influential works, and understand how the research field has evolved over time. 4️⃣ Did you miss something important? → Find missing links Use Litmaps to search on the papers you already have - to find key studies you may have overlooked, ensuring you don’t miss critical references in your field. 5️⃣ Falling out-of-date? → Monitor your Litmaps Track your Litmap & easily integrate new relevant papers as they’re published, keeping your literature review fresh and up-to-date. #AcademicTwitter #PhDLife #LiteratureReview #Litmaps #Research #PhD