Tech-Enabled
Yesterday while browsing FB one participant in the doctoral support group shared a software to help us with literature review. When I browsed my favourite search engine's results, apparently there are lots. I tried signing up for it but somehow the "Get Started" button was stagnant. I then went to the pricing plan & saw that there has to be payment for the app to provide 10 reviews daily (minimum); the more papers reviewed the more needs to be paid [but OF COURSE!].
How it was advertised in the FB group:
"[app name] for managing your literature review. Try it as it is so easy to use"
"Writing your Lit Review? Try [app name] a perfect online platform to manage all your reading and connect your thoughts"
Reading these, my expectation was something line a simplified Web of Science/ Web of Knowledge where the app searches based on discipline & then organise the sources according to author credibility or number of citations, with a summary on the side. It does not however do that. Looks more like an algorithm that does a keyword search, highlights & connects to other research available online.. It is machine that does what humans should do in a systematic literature review.
Summary: I am not totally convinced & seriously don't have time to check out/ test the app, and also don't want to start and later find out there are limitations.
Besides if we have read enough literature we can probably find/ connect to the commonly cited authors/ experts. It is not rocket science (since I am doing a social science thesis anyways) but it does require some work & thinking. Isn't that part of the whole process to earn the PhD?
Perhaps next I should look for an app/ AI bot who can write the thesis for me 👽
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