Literature reviews by magicor, how to know what to read next.

Problem

‣ For literature review, you want to focus on the most important articles.

‣ It is not easy to find out which articles are important.

magic highlights commonlycited articles for you

magic highlights commonlycited articles for you

So you can focus onhigh-quality articles.

Step 1: Seed articles

Find PDFs onyour topic.

Two is enoughto get started.

Step 2: magicPaper()

Enter the seed article into literature review database.

magicPaper( citekey = "ekman1999", title = "Basic Emotions")

citekey = "ekman1999"

ekman1999

1st author’sfamily name

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How to make citekeys:

Step 2: magicCite()

As you read the PDF, identify sentences with citations.

magicCite( from = "ekman1999", to = "ekman1984", sentence = "In this chapter I consolidate my previous writings about basic emotions (Ekman, 1984,1992a, 1992b) and introduce a few changes in my thinking."

)

Repeat for all citations in the seed PDFs*

* To be automated.

Step 3: magicOverview()

Network of articles that werecited three times or more.

Network of articles that werecited six times or more.

github.com/vanderlowe/magic

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