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Finding Related Research and Identifying a Research Gap: Try “Connected Papers”

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Short Summary Many researchers search PubMed to find articles on a topic, but few know how to visually map related research and identify gaps. In this post, I explore a real example using my paper on searching PubMed in radiology — and demonstrate how a tool like Connected Papers can help researchers refine or choose a research topic by finding related research or identifying research gaps or both! Why This Topic Matters When we publish, we often wonder: Who else has written something similar? Has the topic evolved? Is there a gap I can explore further?Traditional searching gives us a…
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AnswerThis.org — A Smart Add-On to Systematic Searching!

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Finding and organizing the right research papers can often take hours — sometimes days. What if you had an assistant that could do part of this for you: finding relevant studies, summarizing them, and even giving you proper citations? That’s what AnswerThis.org (also accessible via answerthis.io) does. It’s an AI-powered research assistant that helps you ask a question or describe a topic — and then gives you a detailed, referenced summary built from scholarly papers. Using AnswerThis, you can: Get literature summaries with citations Identify research gaps — areas that need more study Save or upload papers in your own…
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