1. Read the mind map After the search, each branch fills from retrieved papers. This is the main view.
Search academic papers in your own words, or paste a paper title or DOI. Sign in to get a grounded AI answer, a literature mind map, an idea timeline, and a citation map. Two chats are free. After a search, download a Word starting draft.
Ask a research question, or paste a paper title or a DOI. After the academic literature search, papers fill a literature mind map, an idea timeline, and a citation map. You can change the three-branch set before you ask again.
1. Read the mind map After the search, each branch fills from retrieved papers. This is the main view.
2. Open the timeline Ideas sit on a time line. A new branch starts when ideas split in the same year.
3. Open the citation map The Citations tab plots the seed paper, its references, and the papers that cite it. The X-axis is the year. The Y-axis is the number of citations. Use a paper chip to change the seed paper.
4. Optional: pick a set Five sets cover definition, mechanism, evidence, effects, and comparison. Each set has three branches.
5. Or let the question choose An effects question suggests “What it changes”. You can still pick another set.
6. Override when you need a verdict Choose “Is it true” when you want claim, support, and strength.
This video shows the Citations tab. A student pastes a paper, opens the citation map, reads a bubble, then builds a new map from another paper.
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Lit Mind Maps is grounded literature AI for Masters and PhD students. It is for academic literature search, citation mapping, literature mind maps, and a starting draft for a literature review — not a finished thesis chapter.
Yes. Type a research question in plain language. Lit Mind Maps searches scholarly papers and returns a grounded answer with citations from that search.
Yes. After the search, retrieved papers fill a three-branch literature mind map, an idea timeline, and a citation map. You can change the branch set before you ask.
Yes. After you sign in and run a search, use Download Word to get a starting draft for a literature review or a research proposal. It is a stepping stone for supervision, not a finished thesis chapter. Check every paper.
Chat models often invent references. Lit Mind Maps searches papers first and grounds the answer, the mind map, the timeline, and the citation graph on that retrieved set.
Elicit and Consensus are strong at paper Q&A and extraction tables. Lit Mind Maps is built for a grounded answer plus a literature mind map, an idea timeline, and a Word starting draft. See Lit Mind Maps vs Elicit, Consensus, ResearchRabbit, scite, and ChatGPT.
Citation mapping shows how a paper connects to other papers. It plots the papers that the seed paper cites, and the papers that cite the seed paper. Lit Mind Maps draws this as a bubble graph. The X-axis is the year. The Y-axis is the number of citations.
Yes. Paste a paper title or a DOI in the search field. Open the Citations tab. The citation map shows the references of that paper and the papers that cite it. The X-axis is the year. The Y-axis is the number of citations. Use a paper chip to change the seed paper.
Connected Papers and Litmaps are strong for related-work discovery networks. Lit Mind Maps is a citation mapping tool plus a grounded literature search. After you paste a paper or a question, it plots references and citing papers by year and citation count, and it also writes a cited answer and a mind map. See citation mapping.
No. The lab searches paper records and grounds the answer on the retrieved set (title, abstract, and metadata). It is a starting aid, not a full-text PRISMA 2020 review. Open each paper and check the claim before you cite it.