Publications that report latest research findings are collectively referred to as literature in academia.
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What to include in a literature review? [closed]
I'm working on my dissertation (BSc in Computer Science). I have been working on Microscopic traffic simulation specifically how to include impatience in DVUs so that they break the highway code rules ...
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Google Scholar vs other academic search engines
How is Google Scholar compared to other academic search engines and catalogues such as ScienceDirect, Scopus, and universities' own online catalogues--in terms of the following?
comprehensiveness ...
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Verifying that cited results are still current before publishing
Assume you are knee-deep in a project, going through a series of papers that are seemingly relevant to your project. You found this ~10 year old paper, which looks very promising indeed. A lot of ...
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How to stay on top of recent literature?
When I started my Masters thesis one advice I got for getting good material to read was to subscribe to several journals' alerts system, so that I would get mails with eTOC (electronic Table of ...
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PubMed RSS Feeds
I would like to be up to date with published articles on my research topic. I saw that pubmed allow to subscribe to a research (there is an RSS link just below the research box), so I added the RSS to ...
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Is there a network map of subjects and how they connect with each other?
The problem
When doing a literature review at the start of a process of addressing a specific problem, it's easy to miss related material, if I don't know that it is related.
The example
Let's say ...
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How to do a literature review efficiently?
For a new project I want to compile a literature review to determine the state of the art and possible approaches to start with.
Last time I adhered to the following scheme, but it felt very ...
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How to annotate/summarize research papers for long-term retrieval?
I am new to my field (cell biology / immunology) and I would like to ask about the best practice to annotate or summarize research articles and reviews for long-term retrieval. When I start reading ...
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Organizing my reading list in Mendeley
I keep publications from the literature in Mendeley for later reading on my iPad. There are many publications, so I need some sort of way of prioritizing the ones I need to read first versus the ones ...
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What are “getcited.org” and “getcited.com” for?
What is the purpose of getcited.org and getcited.com?
I am completely new to researching and paper publishing and I frequently get results from this site in Google Scholar Search.
I am absolutely ...
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How useful is it to perform a systematic literature review?
How well accepted has been (systematic) literature reviews in your research field, these days?!
I come from computer science field, more specifically Software Engineering. Some professors I keep in ...
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Keeping advisees aware of literature
When advising students performing research in one's group, what's the best way to make sure that they keep on top of the literature?
Is it best to forward any article of interest to the student?
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Subtle (and not-so-subtle) humor in scientific literature
Tonight I was scrolling through my RSS aggregator (which includes subscriptions for several journals I follow) and this abstract caught my attention. The article's title, as well as the name of the ...
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Am I reading enough of the scientific literature? Should I read for breadth or depth?
Ever since starting graduate school I've tried to make scientific reading a part of my daily ritual; I track pages read using Beeminder, and the graph doesn't lie. It keeps me honest.
I aim to ...
