Litmaps provides comprehensive and customizable search algorithms, letting you efficiently search through the scientific literature on your topic.

Litmaps finds relevant research on your topic by using the citation network.

To get started, create a Litmap for one or more starting articles. Then review the relevant, suggested literature to find articles you didn't know about.

You can customize your search using different filters or algorithms to narrow down your search and find literature on your topic even faster.

Click here to learn on how to use the Litmaps search, including how to change your algorithm or use advanced search features.

Litmaps has three search algorithms you can choose from:

After creating a Litmap, you can update the search algorithm or add search filters.

Litmaps finds results with the most connected literature to your input article(s).

For a single input article, Litmaps returns the most inter-connected articles from among your paper's citations, references and co-citations (co-citations are all the citations of the references). For multiple inputs, Litmaps returns the most inter-connected articles from among all the inputted papers citations and references.

Litmaps analyzes your inputs and identifies the most common author collaborations and returns other articles also published by those author collaborations.

Litmaps uses AI-driven semantic analysis on the titles and abstracts of your inputs to find articles with similar content. This is the only algorithm that does not use citations/references in calculating recommendations.