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Science Map Turns a Research Question into a Field Atlas

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Science Map reads top papers around a thesis and returns trends, gaps, open problems, and ranked research directions.

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For: Researchers choosing a thesis or research direction
Worth noticing: Each ranked direction includes a proposed first experiment and a kill criterion.

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The workflow begins with a rough thought, which the chat expands into possible directions before the user edits the scope. The site says it can gather candidates from OpenAlex, arXiv, and Semantic Scholar, organize them into up to eight areas, and evaluate selected abstracts for relevance, method, signal, and open problems. Its example atlas covers 150 papers and ends with ranked directions paired with a first experiment and a kill criterion.

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