Exploring Tools for Citation Discovery & Literature Mapping

I have created this Blog post As a Task for  the Ph.D. Course work assigned by  Dr. Dilip Barad sir on the integration of AI tools for the Literary Research. ( Worksheet Blog )

Task 1 

AI Tool	Research Rabbit	Litmaps	Semantic Scholar
Strength	Its providing networks and timelines and it is easy to use too	It is quite easy to use and in very interesting way it shows the map where we can see the references and citations	Easy to use Interface, the site is simple to navigate with less flashy options
User Friendliness	Yes it is quite user friendly but still the way it shows network it is less engaging	Quite opposite to my views for Research rabbit, Litmaps on other hand is superb, we can easily use it and there is less confusion	Easy to search articles, We can select field of study, publish time, if the pdf is available or not
Outputs Generation	Output generation is not quite satisfying with research rabbit. We jump to one box to another yet there is no relevance we get confused where we are heading	In Litmaps it is quite easy to understand the map, the seed and related articles and we can easily find the results.	Once we select a paper we get citations, works referred and related papers
Keywords, DOI	I chose key words ‘Posthumanism in Literature’ for the search but there was no good match for quality articles or no pattern to be found in the network	Here i chose the keyword ‘posthumanism in Films’ and the results were satisfying as i found an important article that was link to so good articles  The articles is  ‘What is a posthumanist reading?’ by  Stefan Herbrechter &Ivan Callus (2008)	In this i searched for keywords ‘Posthumanism in Literature’
New Discoveries	My quest on Research Rabbit was not quite satisfying so there was no discovery.	I found the mentioned article and through the article it was easy to link to several other articles that were used in reference and citation list	The results were not so different from the other tools i used but the interface of this site was way more simple
Limitations	The networking graphs and jumping to new box makes it hard to understand	It does not show if the access is open or not we have to find out the access through the source site or through searching institution access.	There were no map or network like Citation Gecko or Litmap

Task 2

Choose one key research article in your area (preferably a recent or influential one).

I was Exploring the AI tool Litmaps, for the Finding Research Articles and I chose the article,

 ‘What is a posthumanist reading?’ by Stefan Herbrechter & Ivan Callus (2008).

Use the tool to explore:

Backward citations: Who does this article cite?

While using this article as seed article and searching its references, the site showed me 32 results as Reference for this articles that are following 

Title	Authors	Journal	Year	Cited By	References
Invasion of the body snatchers : film	Don Siegel	N/A	1955	5	0
Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock	M. Szalay	N/A	1995	9	0
Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology, and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries	Jonathan Dollimore	The American Historical Review	1985	200	0
Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems	Bruce Clarke	N/A	2008	84	0
The Inhuman: Reflections on Time	J. Lyotard, G. Bennington, R. Bowlby	N/A	1991	413	0
Literature, Theory, and Common Sense	Antoine Compagnon	Princeton University Press eBooks	2004	16	0
Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock	J. Tambling, T. Cohen	N/A	1997	22	0
A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century	Donna Haraway	Bloomsbury Academic eBooks	2017	1158	12
We have never been modern	Bruno Latour	Choice Reviews Online	1994	9301	52
Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries.	J. Crewe, J. Dollimore	N/A	1982	323	0
Critical Humanisms: Humanist and Anti-Humanist Debates	A. Mousley, M. Halliwell	N/A	2003	1	0
Terminator 3 : rise of the machines	Jonathan Mostow	N/A	2002	32	0
Anti-Mimesis: From Plato to Hitchcock.	Tom Cohen	American Literature	1995	24	0
My Mother Was a Computer	N. Katherine Hayles	N/A	2005	520	0
Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences	J. Derrida	N/A	2001	1097	1
Planet of the apes	F. Maderspacher	Current Biology	2005	43	0
Posthuman Metamorphosis	Bruce Clarke	N/A	2022	43	0
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics by N. Katherine Hayles (review)	J. Tambling	N/A	2022	2545	0
Alien Chic: Posthumanism and the Other Within	Neil Badmington	N/A	2004	68	0
Alien Chic	Neil Badmington	Routledge eBooks	2004	79	0
Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions	Susan McManus	N/A	2007	732	0
Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: The future of the profession or the university without condition (thanks to the “Humanities,” what could take place tomorrow)	J. Derrida	N/A	2002	75	3
Critical Practice	Catherine Belsey	Routledge eBooks	2003	465	0
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century	D. Haraway	N/A	2006	1815	72
Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming	Rosi Braidotti	Canadian Journal of Sociology	2003	870	0
The Ends of Man	J. Derrida	N/A	1969	217	0
We Have Never Been Modern	B. Latour	N/A	1991	5035	1
Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity	William Rasch, Cary Wolfe	N/A	2000	62	0
Literature, Theory, and Common Sense	Antoine Compagnon, Carol Cosman	N/A	2004	29	0
How we became posthuman	N. Katherine Hayles	N/A	1999	3109	0
Twentieth Century-Fox	D. Gomery	N/A	2005	131	0
Representations of the post/human: monsters, aliens and others in popular culture	Elaine Graham	Choice Reviews Online	2002	234	0
Les fins de l'homme: À partir du travail de Jacques Derrida (Colloque de Cerisy, 23 juillet-2 août 1980)	Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy	Galilée eBooks	1981	7	0
My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts	N. K. Hayles	N/A	2005	510	0
Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence	Hans P. Moravec	Leonardo	1991	651	0
Archaeologies of the future: the desire called utopia and other science fictions	Fredric Jameson	Choice Reviews Online	2006	826	0

Forward citations: Who has cited this article?

Through same process as used in reference the site Litmaps also showed the CItation list of Articles that have chose this articles as reference and that showed me 32 results that are following 

Title	Authors	Journal	Year	Cited By	References
Romanticism and Critical Posthumanism	Elizabeth Effinger	Springer eBooks	2022	0	41
Posthumanist Education	Stefan Herbrechter	N/A	2019	5	32
(Re-)Assembling Cultural Studies	Florian Cord	Culture Unbound	2022	2	64
"Dead channel": writing cyberpunk	Daniel Lewis	N/A	2017	0	36
I Am Hippolyta, Discoverer: Genres of Being Human beyond the Prevailing Order of Man	Mary Harris, Rachel N. Arney	GeoHumanities	2024	0	26
Posthumanism, Artificial Intelligence and Ishiguro's Klara & the Sun: Can Humanoid Machines attain consciousness?	K. Alkodimi	Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture	2024	0	9
Zombie Fictions	Anya Heise-von der Lippe	Springer eBooks	2018	0	9
Posthumanism, subjectivity, autobiography	Stefan Herbrechter	Subjectivity	2012	27	47
Frankenstein’s Avatars: Posthuman monstrosities in Indian science fiction cinema	A. P. Lakkad	Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities	2018	15	2
Performance as Critical Posthuman Pedagogy	Shauna Macdonald	N/A	2014	11	41
Whither life?	M. Taylor	N/A	2012	2	45
Whither life|[quest]|	Matthew A Taylor	Subjectivity	2012	2	52
David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and the Queer Posthuman	Luke Hortle	Lit-literature Interpretation Theory	2016	3	66
Introduction: Posthumanist subjectivities, or, coming after the subject …	Ivan Callus, Stefan Herbrechter	N/A	2012	40	73
Through thick and thin: the romance of the species in the anthropocene	Haiyan Lee	International Communication of Chinese Culture	2018	4	42
Anthropocene gothic : the monstrous anthropocene of Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak, The Shape of Water, and Pacific Rim	S. Payne	N/A	2019	0	27
the Posthuman	R. Braidotti, Haruki Murakami, D. Gemmell	N/A	2014	0	164
Toward an Ethics of Affinity: Posthumanism and the Question of the Animal in Two SF Narratives of Catastrophe	María Ferrández-Sanmiguel	Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction	2022	1	10
Literature and Posthumanism	Ivan Callus	Springer eBooks	2022	0	41
The Observer Observed. The Promise of the Posthuman: Homeostasis, Autopoiesis and Virtuality in Samuel Beckett	Laurens De Vos	Journal of Beckett Studies	2018	4	11
MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN: POSTHUMANISM IN LITERARY DISCOURSE	Jorisse Campado Gumanay	International Journal of Humanity Studies	2023	1	15
AI and Digital Sentience in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun	Aman Deep Singh	Advances in human and social aspects of technology book series	2024	0	19
“Posthuman Intersections in BrexLit: Representing Migration in Contemporary British Fiction”	María Alonso Alonso	Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction	2023	0	25
From Seed to Fruit: A Posthuman Journey From Stage to Page	Nicole E. Wood	N/A	2010	0	44
Posthumanist Education?	Stefan Herbrechter	Springer international handbooks of education	2018	6	14
Frankenstein’s Avatars: Posthuman Monstrosity in Enthiran/Robot	Abhishek V. Lakkad	N/A	2018	1	12
The Posthuman	K. Toffoletti	N/A	2015	1384	163
Cross-Species Contagion in Beckett’s Endgame: A Posthumanist (Re)reading	Ghadeer Alhasan, Dina Salman	Journal of Language, Literature and Culture	2021	0	27
Performing The (Non)Human: A Tentatively Posthuman Reading of Dionne Brand’s Short Story Blossom 1	Story	N/A	2023	0	11
The Posthuman	K. Toffoletti	N/A	2014	1043	2
Hamlet and Posthumanist Politics	Stefan Herbrechter	N/A	2016	0	32
Hamlet jenseits psychologischer Deutungen (1): Post-Humanist Hamlet	Stefan Herbrechter	J.B. Metzler eBooks	2014	0	45

Co-citations or related papers

From Backward Citations (References used by the seed article):

These articles were published around 2006–2010:

1. Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems
   Author: Bruce Clarke
   Year: 2008
   Cited by: 84
   
   

2. Literature, Theory, and Common Sense
   Author: Antoine Compagnon
   Year: 2004
   
   

3. My Mother Was a Computer
   Author: N. Katherine Hayles
   Year: 2005
   Cited by: 520
   
   

4. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
   Author: Susan McManus
   Year: 2007
   Cited by: 732
   
   

5. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics
   Author: N. Katherine Hayles
   Year: 1999
   
   

From Forward Citations (Articles that cited the seed article):

These were published around 2008–2012

1. Posthumanism, Subjectivity, Autobiography
   Author: Stefan Herbrechter
   Year: 2012
   Cited by: 27
   
   

2. Introduction: Posthumanist Subjectivities, or, Coming After the Subject
   Authors: Ivan Callus, Stefan Herbrechter
   Year: 2012
   Cited by: 40
   
   

3. Frankenstein’s Avatars: Posthuman Monstrosities in Indian Science Fiction Cinema
   Author: A. P. Lakkad
   Year: 2018 

Summarize your findings:

• What patterns or schools of thought emerge?

While searching for Posthumanism in Literature and Films, association of Posthumanism with Feminism and Speculative Science Fiction is Common. The Philosophical Side and Study of Phosthuman Themes in Literature is Done. There are less Qualitative Work Found through The use of an AI tool for my Study of Interest which is Posthumanism in Films. There are Books Like Palgrave Handbook and its Chapters and Katherine Hayles ‘How we became Posthumans’ are common works that can be Found. The Pionir for the Posthumanist Framework can be said Donna Jeanne Haraway with her work ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’

• Which authors or journals appear most frequently?

The Pionir for the Posthumanist Framework can be said of Donna Jeanne Haraway with her work ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’. There are Books Like Palgrave Handbook and its Chapters and Katherine Hayles ‘How we became Posthumans’ are common works that can be Found. There are less Qualitative Work Found through Research Articles my Study of Interest which is Posthumanism in Films.

• Are there any surprising gaps or contradictions?     

Yes, a surprising gap observed is the limited availability of focused, high-quality research specifically on posthumanism in films, despite the abundance of theoretical literature in philosophy and literary studies. Foundational works like Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto and N. Katherine Hayles’ How We Became Posthuman are repeatedly cited, but there is a noticeable lack of recent or diverse perspectives directly analyzing cinematic representations of posthumanism.

Part 3 Reflection on Using AI Tools

The integration of digital AI tools like Research Rabbit, Litmaps, and Semantic Scholar offers substantial support for rigorous academic research by streamlining the process of discovering, mapping, and analyzing scholarly literature. These tools help visualize the interconnections among articles through citation networks, backward and forward references, and thematic clustering. By automating parts of the literature review process, they save time and allow researchers to focus more on critical analysis than on manual searches. Among these, Litmaps stood out for its intuitive design, clarity of visualizations, and effective mapping of related literature.

These digital tools can also reduce selection bias by exposing researchers to a wider and more diverse range of articles beyond traditional journals or databases. They enable a broader and more inclusive literature review by highlighting lesser-known but relevant works that might otherwise be missed in conventional searches.