Subject Guides: AI in Research: Citation or Literature mapping

Citation or Literature mapping

Tools for use in research: Citation or Literature Mapping

Citation mapping tools visualise and analyse the relationships between scholarly publications based on their citations.
Citation mapping tools:

Monash Hospital Library have created a matrix of some citation mapping tools with a rating.

AI Search Tools Matrix
Use the decision matrix from Monash Hospital Library to choose the AI search tool tool that suits your needs. The library has graded these tools based on ease of use, functionality, and reliability of the sources.
Consensus
Consensus is a search engine that uses language models to surface papers and synthesize insights from academic research papers. Material comes from the Semantic Scholar database.
Elicit
Elicit is a citation mapping tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help researchers discover and understand scholarly literature. It allows users to input a seed paper (or papers) and then generates a network map of related papers, highlighting the most important and influential papers in the field.
Litmaps
Litmaps is a web-based tool that provides access to a vast database of publications. It has the capability to display papers as network graphs, utilizing publication years, citations, citing relations, and title similarity as the basis. By analyzing the connections between papers, Litmaps can offer recommendations, eliminating the need for users to generate specific search keywords.
Research Rabbit
ResearchRabbit is an innovative citation tracking tool that allows users to optimise their searching by using 'collections' and relevant (seed) papers to discover references.

ChatPDF
ChatPDF is an AI-powered tool that allows users to interact with and extract information from PDF documents through a conversational interface.
Lateral
Lateral.io is a web application that helps researchers, efficiently read, organise, search, annotate, and share research documents and literature by providing AI-powered suggestions, text highlighting, collaborative features, and the ability to export findings with references.
Scholarcy
Scholarcy is an online tool that helps researchers, read, summarise, and organise long-form articles, research papers, and documents.
Scite AI
Scite AI is used for discovering and evaluating scientific articles via Smart Citations. Smart Citations allow users to see how a publication has been cited by providing the context of the citation and a classification describing whether it provides supporting or contrasting evidence for the cited claim.