It can be difficult to fully appreciate or analyze the work and impact of a single researcher. Simply reviewing a few of their papers, or seeing some citations, only provides a glimpse into the total impact of their work.

Instead, use a visual literature map to clearly see all the work a single researcher has completed, as well as the impact that has on the broader field.

Use Litmaps to review the work of a researcher, or group of researchers, by visualizing their published articles on a single Litmap.

This example Litmap below demonstrates the work of Dane deQuilettes. He's an award-winning researcher that develops efficient solar cells with perovskite (for solar-powered energy). The Map shows all his work between 2012-2024, and how the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of his contributions evolve over time.

To create this Litmap:

You can use Litmaps to see how a researcher's work has influenced their field. Litmaps searches for relevant, connected papers based on the citation network. Therefore, if you use an author's work as an input to the algorithm, and filter results to those recently published, you will quickly find research that is directly based on their work.

For this example, we use the map of Dane deQuilettes we created in the last step, and run it through the Litmaps Explore algorithm, filtering for articles published after 2023 that mention his topic of "perovskites" and are published in high-impact journals (with SJR quartiles 1 or 2).

To create this Litmap:

It can be helpful to review how a researcher's work has evolved over time. This may reflect the trends in the field, as well as the distinct individual's career path.

In this example, we review the work of machine learning expert Andrew Ng, whose work has evolved from a focus on reinforcement learning, to deep learning, to robotics, to health applications. By visualizing his publications on one Litmap, and tagging articles based on the different sub-topics, we can clearly see this evolution of work.

To create this Litmap: