Streamline your literature review workflow without ever going off track with ‘Trace the Paper’ on SciSpace.
Conducting a scientific literature review is a messy phase of a research project. At least for the most part. You're either drowning in a pile of books at your university library or sifting through a cluster of browser tabs to find a relevant resource. As a researcher, especially when you're not a student, this is time-consuming, if not outright frustrating.
At SciSpace, we understand the challenges of navigating through scientific literature, and our new feature, Trace the Paper, is an attempt at making literature searches less overwhelming and a lot more rewarding for you.
Whether you're reading scientific literature for research, to shore up subject knowledge, or just for the heck of it, Trace the Paper lets you dive deep into a paper or the broader topic without losing your way. You can explore references and citations, discover connected and relevant articles, and understand where and how the research fits in the existing body of knowledge — all from a single screen.
Let's take a look at how it all works.
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What is the best way to search scientific literature?
A research paper has several aspects worthy of further inspection. The obvious being the authors, references used, and the papers that have cited it. You can use the ‘Trace the Paper’ feature to explore these and much more, including institutions that have contributed to it, other relevant articles on the subject, and even closely related topics.
This allows you to diversify and deepen your research. Who knows what you might stumble upon?
How can continuity be established in your literature review?
Using ‘Trace the Paper' in scientific literature, you can produce a streamlined workflow where you can go back and forth to a specific point without hassle. This way, you don’t lose your references, which is a recurring problem for many scholars. Also, your workplace is no longer a scattered mess. So, you end up sparing time for other things like collecting data for your project.
On top of that, you can keep building a chain by investigating more and more, eventually creating a mind map. Side effects may include a rabbit hole of new information.
Efficiently accessing references without redirection or delays
Since you're creating a linear flow in one place instead of opening a new tab or a book for individual references, you’ll be less prone to distractions. There is no load time either, as all your resources are on a single page. The only work you would put in is scrolling left and right.
Steps for literature search
‘Trace the Paper’ is a simple yet systematic feature. You get access to all of your scientific literature in one place at the click of a button. Here’s how it works:
Step 1: Go to SciSpace, and search for a topic, author, or paper.
Step 2: Once you find the desired research paper, click on ‘Trace this paper.’
Step 3: You’ll see the different relations surrounding the research paper pop up on the right. Select the one you would like to explore.
Step 4: Scroll through the results, click on an item you want to discover further, and the cycle starts over again.
Trace the Paper is a free-to-use feature, that works with more than 200 million papers across all domains on SciSpace. Get to know more about it by tracing papers yourself, and you’ll go on a limitless adventure in your literature review.
