Litmaps for Students

Faster literature review

Tackling a literature review can be overwhelming. With thousands of papers on your topic, where do you even start?

Litmaps simplifies the entire literature review process by helping you to quickly find the most important papers and understand the big picture in no time.

Students use Litmaps

Students from 150+ countries use Litmaps to support their literature review.

Whether you're an undergraduate starting your first research project, or a PhD student wrapping up your thesis, you can rely on Litmaps to quickly find and manage your research literature.

Join 100,000s of students across the world, and use Litmaps to:

• Quickly find papers on your topic
• Stay organized effortlessly
• Understand the bigger picture
• Know when you're done looking

How does Litmaps work?

Litmaps finds papers on your topic using the citation network. Simply search for your topic, select an article, and Litmaps will find relevant articles based on connection.

Literature maps, like this one on the left, make it easy to find important papers on your topic and see the big-picture.

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Used by 350,000+ researchers worldwide

“Seeing my literature list as a network enhances my thinking process!”
J.C.
— Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

“Incredibly useful tool to get to know more literature, and to gain insight in existing research”
Researcher
— KU Leuven, Belgium

“As a student just venturing into the world of lit reviews, this is a tool that is outstanding and helping me find deeper results for my work.”
Franklin Jeffers
— South Oregon University, USA

“Any researcher could use it! The paper recommendations are great for anyone and everyone”
Researcher
— Swansea University, Wales

“This tool really helped me to create good bibtex references for my research papers”
Ali Mohammed-Djafari
— Director of Research at LSS-CNRS, France

“Litmaps is extremely helpful with my research. It helps me organize each one of my projects and see how they relate to each other, as well as to keep up to date on publications done in my field”
Daniel Fuller
— Clarkson University, USA

As a person who is an early researcher and identifies as dyslexic, I can say that having research articles laid out in the date vs cite graph format is much more approachable than looking at a standard database interface. I feel that the maps Litmaps offers lower the barrier of entry for researchers by giving them the connections between articles spaced out visually. This helps me orientate where a paper is in the history of a field. Thus, new researchers can look at one of Litmap's "seed maps" and have the same information as hours of digging through a database.
Baylor Fain
— Postdoctoral Associate – University of Florida

“Litmaps is a game changer for finding novel literature... it has been invaluable for my productivity.... I also got my PhD student to use it and they also found it invaluable, finding several gaps they missed”
Varun Venkatesh
— Austin Health, Australia

As a full-time researcher, Litmaps has become an indispensable tool in my arsenal. The Seed Maps and Discover features of Litmaps have transformed my literature review process, streamlining the identification of key citations while revealing previously overlooked relevant literature, ensuring no crucial connection goes unnoticed. A true game-changer indeed!
Ritwik Pandey
— Doctoral Research Scholar – Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

Using Litmaps for my research papers has significantly improved my workflow. Typically, I start with a single paper related to my topic. Whenever I find an interesting work, I add it to my search. From there, I can quickly cover my entire Related Work section.
David Fischer
— Research Associate – University of Applied Sciences Kempten

“It's nice to get a quick overview of related literature. Really easy to use, and it helps getting on top of the often complicated structures of referencing”
Christoph Ludwig
— Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

“This has helped me so much in researching the literature. Currently, I am beginning to investigate new fields and this has helped me hugely”
Aran Warren
— Canterbury University, NZ

“I can’t live without you anymore! I also recommend you to my students.”
Eliza Mik
— Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong

“Seeing my literature list as a network enhances my thinking process!”
J.C.
— Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium