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Text Mining tools

These tools can be used to find relevant search terms for your topic.

MeSH on Demand
Copy and paste text (title, abstract, full text) to identify MeSH terms within it. Links to similar PubMed citations are included.
PubMed PubReMiner
Enter text and PubReMiner will search PubMed for relevant results. It analyses these results and shows frequency of keywords in title/abstract and also relevant MeSH headings. Also includes most frequently cited journals and authors for this query.
Yale MeSH Analyzer
Paste in a list of Pubmed identification numbers (PMIDs). Creates a grid in which MeSH terms and keywords are sorted and grouped.
PubVenn
PubVenn allows you to explore PubMed visually by generating Venn diagrams. You can enter any multi-term search to generate a Venn diagram that allows you to view the size of the citation set for each term as well as how those sets interact.
Voyant Tools
A text analysis tool. Input article URL's or database search results. Shows word frequency and words in phrases.

Systematic Review Toolbox

Systematic Review Toolbox
The Systematic Review Toolbox is an catalogue of tools that support various tasks within the systematic review and wider evidence synthesis process.

Literature Mapping

Literature mapping is a way of discovering scholarly articles by exploring connections between publications. Similar articles are often linked by citations, authors, keywords or index terms. These connections can be explored manually in a database (Pubmed, Google Scholar) or using automated tools. These tools use citation data to track and visualise connections between articles or authors.

Manual Literature Mapping

Manual literature mapping is a method of locating an article that is highly relevant to your topic and using it as a starting point to connect to other relevant papers.

Find a highly relevant article on your topic and locate it in Pubmed or Google Scholar.

Explore connections by

Look at the references to go back in time.
Use the "Cited By" feature to go forward in time and see papers that have cited the article.
Look at the authors to see if they have published anything else relevant.
Look at keyword and index terms to add to your search.
Use the "related articles" feature to check possibly relevant papers recommended by the database. Use this

Citation Mapping tools

Use this chart by Monash Health library to choose the citation mapping tool that sits your needs.

Citation mapping tools comparison Use to choose the citation mapping tool that suits your needs
Research Rabbit
Creates citation maps of recommended articles based on user provided collections of papers. Import collection from citation manager or build a new one using Pubmed ID, DOI, or keyword search. Free to use if you set up an account.
Inciteful
Free to use. Builds a network of papers from citations. Import from citation manager or search using Pubmed ID, DOI, or title.

Reporting guidelines

Equator Network
The Equator Network sets out reporting guidelines for a range of different study types. Find checklists of all elements which should be included in your chosen study type.