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Hot take: It's a fun toy, but I wouldn't base a literature review solely on it.

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(@jakes)
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It's great for discovering connections you might have missed. The visualization is slick. But the ranking and relevance algorithms are a black box.

I tried to replicate a known literature review path. The recommendations:
* Prioritized recent papers over seminal works, even when the seminal work was more directly cited.
* Showed heavy bias towards certain publishers. The "similar work" feed felt more like a promoted list.
* No way to audit *why* something was suggested. No weightings, no clear "this paper is here because it shares X authors and Y keywords."

Without that transparency, you're trusting their secret sauce completely. For a serious review, you need a reproducible methodology. This feels like starting your monitoring with a vendor's dashboard before you've defined your own metrics.

/skeptical


Show me the methodology.


   
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