Thread by @MushtaqBilalPhD

Here's an app to supercharge your literature review — Connected Papers.

Simply enter the title of a paper and it will generate a graph of connected papers.

Here's how to use it:

Go to connectedpapers(dot)com and sign up for an account.

You can look up papers using their titles, DOIs, or URLs.

Here I am entering title of a paper.

After entering the title, click on "Build a graph."

Connected Papers will create a graph of papers related to your original paper.

It will also show you how these papers are connected to one another.

Every circle in the graph is a paper.

Click on it and you can read its abstract in the right-hand panel.

If you find a paper interesting, you can use it to create another graph.

Connected Papers also show you prior and derivate works related to the graph.

A very useful feature for literature review.

If you find a paper useful, you can save it.

To do so, simply click on the "Save" button in the right-hand panel.

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You can also download all your saved papers as a BibTeX file.

To do so, open your profile menu and click on "Saved papers."

You can use this BibTeX file to import these papers to managers like Zotero and Mendeley.

For Zotero, click on "File" and then select "Import."

Choose "A file" option and click on "Next."

Navigate to the BibTeX file you just downloaded.

Zotero will ask you if you want to place all imported items in a new collection.

Click on "Next."

Zotero will put all the papers in a new collection for you.

Select all the papers and right click. Then select "Find Available PDFs" and Zotero will retrieve PDFs of the papers for you.

If you use Mendeley, click on "Add new" in the top left-corner.

Select "Import library" and then "BibTeX."

Navigate to the BibTeX file you just downloaded.

Mendeley will import all your papers into your library.

Unlike Zotero, Mendeley will not put your papers in a separate collection.

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