axtonpitt

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A human on planet earth. Building litmaps.com
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Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah agreed, not having continuity support in Music baffles me
Comment · 5 years ago
Hey there, thanks for the feedback! We have just launched notes and ORCID author search, so hopefully that helps you locate the author you are looking for.
Comment · 5 years ago
Sorry not at the moment, will look into this.
Comment · 5 years ago
Just deployed an update to give you an option to change the label to a truncated title. (It's under the top right 'cog' menu on the map).
Comment · 5 years ago
Not currently, this is on our todo list.
Comment · 5 years ago
Ah thanks for highlighting this, will fix.
Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks a lot, will pass on the feedback.
Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks for the kind words, we'll hopefully have a mobile version one day soon.
Comment · 5 years ago
Hi I'm one of the founders of Litmaps. We set out to build this tool after frustration with the state of current academic search software. This was specifically from the painful literature review process of my co-founder during his PhD.

Our first attempt to solve this was with a "map of all science" (from 1400-today, 100M+ articles, 1B citations), which we did build but it didn't end up solving the problem that well. We re-approached the problem by pairing a time-based citation visualization, with helpful search tools, and project (or map) state. Our visualization lets you quickly see how search results relate to each other (optionally with nodes sized by citation count). We currently have keyword search, and a network search (called Explore) that scans for highly connected articles up to two degrees away from your map(s) and/or keyword searches. Lastly the project state is nice because as you build up key articles, network search is more targeted, and you can opt into email updates if there are any newly published works that connect to your map as we update our dataset.

It's currently in early access so it's free to use, and you don't need to create an account to get started. You can dive right in and start finding relevant articles to what you are working on or are interested in. Keen to hear feedback on our work so far. Thanks.

Comment · 5 years ago
That's a great suggestion, there isn't an option currently but that is reasonably easy to add. One issue is trying to fit enough labels on nodes to make it useful which we have grappled with.
Comment · 5 years ago
Hi I'm one of the founders of Litmaps. We set out to build this tool after frustration with the state of current academic search software. This was specifically from the painful literature review process of my co-founder during his PhD.

Our first attempt to solve this was with a "map of all science" (1400-today, 100M+ articles, 1B connections), which we did build but it didn't end up solving the problem that well.

We re-approached this problem by pairing a time-based citation network visualization, with helpful search tools, and project state. Our visualization lets you quickly see how search results relate to each other (optionally with nodes sized by citation count). We currently provide keyword search (with results optionally ranked by connection to your project graph, to target searches), and a network search that scans for highly connected articles up to two degrees away from your project. Lastly the project state is nice because as you build up key articles, network search is more targeted and we can send you updates if there are any newly published works that connect to your project as we update our dataset.

It's currently in early access so it's free to use, and you don't need to create an account to get started. You can dive right in and start finding relevant papers to what you are working on or are interested in.

Interested in hearing feedback on our work so far. Thanks.

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