Litmaps is a literature discovery and visualization platform that helps you explore academic research by creating interactive citation maps. Instead of relying on keyword search alone, it uses citation networks to show how papers relate and recommends relevant literature you might otherwise miss.
Doing a literature review by manually searching databases can be slow and often misses influential papers. Litmaps accelerates this by suggesting connected works, showing them as visual maps, and tracking updates so you stay current as new research publishes.
You start with a seed paper or topic, then Litmaps builds a citation network map of related papers. You can expand your map, filter results, and visualize relationships based on citation count, publication year, and other metrics. The platform also supports alerts for new relevant literature and integrates with reference managers (e.g., Zotero)
