Thread by @MushtaqBilalPhD

Literature reviews take a lot of time and effort.

Here's a new Consensus+Zotero workflow to supercharge your literature review.

You can learn this workflow in 15 min: twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Go to consensus(dot)app and sign up for a free account.

This is how your Consensus homepage would like.

Type in your research question in the search bar and press enter.

Consensus will give you a list of papers related to your research question. It will also give you short summaries of those research papers.

Consensus will also show you if a paper is highly cited or not, if it's a systematic review, or if it's a randomized controlled trial.

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If you think a paper is relevant to your project, click on it and Consensus will give you its abstract.

Read the abstract of the paper and then select "Save."

Consensus will open its List menu for you. Select "My Favorites" and then "Save."

If you ask a Yes/No question, Consensus can also give you a summary of the top ten papers and the consensus of the scientific community about the question.

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Save multiple papers to your favorite list.

You can also save papers directly from the search results.

Click on "Save" and then select "My Favorites" and "Save."

Once you have saved enough papers, click on the bookmark icon in the top-right corner and then click on "My Favorites."

Consensus will show you all the papers that you saved and the searches.

Next, open your Zotero.

Click on "File," then "New Collection," and choose a name for your collection.

Go back to Consensus and open the list of papers that you saved.

Right click anywhere on the screen. Select "Zotero Connector," then "Save to Zotero" and then "Save to Zotero DOI."

Zotero will open its "Item Selector." Click on "Select All" and then "OK."

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Zotero will automatically retrieve open-access PDFs of papers and add them to your library.

To read a paper, simply double click on it and Zotero will open it for you.

You can add highlights and also take notes in Zotero.

Limitation of Consensus:

You can only search for topics related to supplements, economics, sleep, social policy, medicine, and mental health.

Consensus offers both free and paid plans. The paid plan costs $7.99 a month.

If you are a student, you can get 40% discount.

You can also get a 20% discount with the code "Mushtaq20."

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