How do I search for a literature review of a subject area?

Author: Pengling
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1. Search Engine
Baidu, Google,google scholar search box input "xx summary", "XX review" keyword

2. Academic database or document management software

(1) Based on the analysis function of the database, such as the citation report function supported by Wok.

(2) based on the analysis of document management software, such as the subject bibliography function under the Endnote tool, it can be analyzed according to author, age and periodical respectively.

(3) Refviz, Omniviz, TDA, etc. based on content analysis

(4) Analysis of software based on citation analysis, such as Histcite, Citespace, etc.

2. Key recommendation-citation analysis software
First clarify what is citation analysis.
Citation analysis, popular Point, is peer to a document of the vote, an article is cited more, indicating its reference or application value is greater. Citing Wikipedia's interpretation of "citation analysis", citation analysis is suitable for exploring the micro-structure of science, facilitating the organization of documents across disciplines, making documents orderly, and facilitating the analysis of the youbiaojili of literature, which is more easily quantified.

Histcite, is based on the citation analysis of a tool, through the analysis of the cited situation of literature to clarify the citation relationship between the documents, through the relationship diagram to find important documents, understanding the development of the small direction of the field. Well, Histcite is a software that I used frequently when I was searching for literature during grad school, and its function (a summary of the "document management" course that embezzled Rozhao's teacher) contains approximately:

A, the development of a field to develop the context

B. Quickly locate important documents in a field

C. Key scientists and institutions in the field of search

D. Summarize the latest developments in a particular area

E. Identify important documents without specified keywords

However, since Histcite's citation data can only be derived from WoS's documentary records at present. Therefore, this software uses thePrerequisitesis able to access the WOS (web of Science, integrated to web of knowledge) database.

Answer to the question of the main questions to find a summary, how to find a review with Histcite, its steps are simple:
1) Install Histcite, software free, the official website is http://interest.science.thomsonreuters.com/forms/HistCite/
2) Open the WOS database, enter keywords (such as Android security), export the database to search for records (such as 1,455 Records), according to "cited number" sort, export the first 500 records;
3) Open Histcite, add 2) to export the document record, then make graph, generate the literature association diagram;
4) Look at the graph, the node represents the document, the arrow represents the reference relationship, the input is referenced, and the output is a reference. Classical literature (or pioneering literature) is often quoted in large numbers, with a large number of input arrows on the nodes. The review document requires a large number of existing work in the field and therefore contains more output arrows.

For example, the following picture:
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-Pioneering literature: 2
-Classical literature: According to the year, followed by 21,55,195
-Literature Review: 354, 412

This picture is not very clear, the citation analysis is such a force.

So here's the problem.
In the case of literature search, the articles with the most citations must be of greater reference value.

Finally, for the search, collection and refinement of scientific research information, recommend a Chinese university MOOC network Open class, Rozhao teacher "document management and Information analysis", the above question in the course has a detailed explanation.

。。。 I'm not going to tell you that I'm a fan of teacher Luo.


Reference:
1. Citation analysis software Histcite Introduction Science Net-citation analysis software Histcite Introduction
2. Literature management and information analysis of Chinese University MOOC (MU class network)