Literature Review Guide

Get the most out of your literature mining and keep it reproducible.

Key Steps

  • Define research questions and keywords
  • Use semantic‑search tools (Connected Papers, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex)
  • Organize PDFs with Zotero / Mendeley and tag them
  • Summarize each paper in a one‑pager (question, method, result, relevance)
  • Build a citation map (graph) to spot gaps

Tip: Export your Zotero library to a CSV and feed it into a mind‑map tool.