Litmaps

Welcome to Litmaps, an online tool to help accelerate your literature review.

Introduction to Litmaps

Here's how Litmaps searches and recommends articles.

Search Algorithms in Litmaps

Discover how the Litmaps database sources 270M+ research articles, handles Open Access metadata, and improves academic search. Learn more today!

Litmaps Database: Coverage, Open Access, and Article Indexing

Here's how to Monitor your Litmaps searches, so you instantly get notified for important, new articles on your topic.

Monitor: Get Alerts for Important Research

Here's how to use Litmaps to find articles, stay organized and accomplish your literature review more efficiently.

Do a Literature Review with Litmaps

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All you need to know about using Litmaps for your research.

How to Use Litmaps

Here's how to dive into the scientific literature efficiently and start finding articles on your topic with Litmaps.

Search for Articles with Litmaps

Here's how to create a Litmap (a literature map).

Create a Litmap

Tags are essential to keeping your research organized. Here's how to save articles you find in Litmaps using Tags.

Save articles with Tags in Litmaps

Discover potential research gaps in the literature using Litmaps.

Find Research Gaps with Litmaps

Here's how to use visual literature maps (Litmaps) to enhance your understanding of your research topic.

Use and Edit Litmaps Visualization

Automatically sync your Zotero collections with your Tags in Litmaps.

Sync Zotero with Litmaps

Here's how to look up articles in the Litmaps search bar.

Look Up Articles in Litmaps

Here's how to merge two Litmaps into one.

Combine Two Litmaps

Access an article's PDF by connecting Litmaps to your institution with LibKey.

Download an Article's PDF in Litmaps

Learn how to save articles from Litmaps as bibliography.

Make a bibliography for a Litmap

Review a researcher's contributions by using a visual Litmap of their work.

Measure a researcher's impact with Litmaps

Here's how to change the order in which authors appear in Litmaps.

Change Author Order

Here is how to create a Litmap for all the references of a given article.

Make a Litmap With an Article's References

How to use Litmaps for common research challenges.

How do I... in Litmaps?

"BibTeX" is a special file format used to store references. They're often used as a bridge between reference managers and tools like ours.

Export BibTeX files from your Reference Manager

Here's how to bring in your existing research into Litmaps.

Import Articles into Litmaps

Here's how to download articles you found in Litmaps.

Export Articles from Litmaps

Keep your projects organized with Workspaces.

Manage Litmaps Workspaces

Edit an article's metadata or access different versions of the same article in Litmaps.

Edit Articles and Manage Paper Versions in Litmaps

Create custom articles for any paper that doesn't exist in the Litmaps database.

Create Custom Articles

Cite articles you discover in Litmaps using in-app citation or bulk export.

How to cite articles in Litmaps

Manage Articles

Here's how to change your email address in the Litmaps app.

Change your Litmaps Email

How to delete your Litmaps account and erase all your data

Delete Your Account

If you didn't receive the verification code email from Litmaps, try these fixes.

Didn't Get your Verification Code?

Here is how to get the invoice or receipt for your payments to your Litmaps subscription.

Get invoice for Litmaps subscription

Here's how to cancel your Litmaps Pro subscription.

Cancel Your Subscription

Here's how to change your account's password in the Litmaps app.

Change your Litmaps Password

How to change your email or password, or delete your account.

Manage my Litmaps Account

Why can't I find an article?

There are many reasons why an article's citations or references may look off.

Why is an article missing references?

Can I add an article that isn't in the Litmaps Database?

How to add articles to a Litmap?

Communicate your research more effectively by including a Litmap in your published work. Just follow these guidelines for attribution.

How should I attribute or cite Litmaps in my work?

Share your Litmap as an image, link or by email.

How to share a Litmap?

Here's how to copy a Map to another Workspace in Litmaps.

How to copy a Litmap or Tag to another Workspace

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