Thread by @LitmapsApp

Find gaps in your research in 2 minutes

See how 👇

[Step 1] You might be organizing your library with a research manager – one like Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote.

To use it with Litmaps, we'll need to export a BibTeX file. These are special files that contain your references.

This only takes a couple of clicks, see below.

@Zotero:
→ Right click your collection in the sidebar
→ Choose "Export Library"
→ Select "BibTeX" from the Format dropdown

@zotero @Mendeley:
→ Select the articles you'd like to export
→ Click the "Export" button that pops up down the bottom
→ Choose the "BibTeX" option

@zotero @Mendeley @EndNote:
(1) First, we'll load the format:
→ Click "Tools" from the top bar
→ From "Output Styles" select "Open Style Manager"
→ Tick the BibTeX Export

(2) Now we can export the BibTeX:
→ Select your articles
→ Click on the ↗️ Export icon
→ Output style: "BibTeX Export"

@zotero @Mendeley @endnote [Step 2] We'll use Discover to find articles that are closely related to your library.

→ Go to app.litmaps.com
→ Click on "Discover"
→ Click on "New Search"
→ Choose "Import from Reference Manager"
→ Upload the BibTeX we exported
→ Click the ⏩ icon to get started

@zotero @Mendeley @endnote [Step 3] In the outer circle you can see your library's top 20 citing/referenced articles!

Use these to "sense check" for your research. Go through them one by one:

🟢 Familiar with all of them? You're up to date.
🔴 Something you haven't seen before? You've found a gap!

@zotero @Mendeley @endnote [Step 4] In just 2 minutes you searched across 100s of your library's citations and references!

You can save any new articles you found:

→ Add results by ticking them
→ Click "Finish"
→ Click "Export" to download a ✨new✨ BibTeX
→ Import it back into your reference manager

@zotero @Mendeley @endnote ps. 🤫

Did you tick any results while using Litmaps Discover?

Click the "Load More" button... We dare you.