AI Tools for Research and Study

Purpose

Citation chaining helps you find papers by following direct citations through a chain of scholarly articles. It helps you trace the development of a research idea or theory over time. 

Method

• usually start with a "perfect" article in hand (also called "seed" article)
• can be in two directions: backward searching and forward searching based on this perfect article

Image Credit: Iowa State University Library Instruction Services. (2021). Library 160: Introduction to college-level research. Press Book. https://iastate.pressbooks.pub/lib160/chapter/using-citations/

Tools

Citing and cited articles can be labeled in the search systems (Library's Primo, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus, Semantic Scholar, etc.)

If you are searching in library discovery Primo, the icons will appear in the result list...

... and at the article records page

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Credits: The AI Tools for Research and Study guide includes content from Literature Discovery through Citation Chaining and Mapping, by Aster Zhao, of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology licensed under a CC BY 4.0