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Snowball

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Snowball lets you quickly find and filter through papers using the snowballing method. Start with a core collection of papers, and find more by going through their citations and references.

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  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
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  1.  Citation detection
  2.  Book Manager

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  • Developed by

    Shengchen Zhang
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  6 Forks
  •  6 Open Issues
  •   Updated Nov 28, 2024 
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Snowball was added to AlternativeTo by Shauna Zhang on Aug 2, 2022 and this page was last updated Aug 2, 2022.

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amritkarmacharya
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Search and filter cited literatures

What is Snowball?

Snowball lets you quickly find and filter through papers using the snowballing method. Start with a core collection of papers, and find more by going through their citations and references.

How to use

  • Start with a collection of papers. You can use a search engine like Web of Science or a reference manager like Zotero.
  • Export your "core" collection into a BibTeX/RIS/... file. Import it into Snowball.
  • Review the papers according to you inclusion criteria. Assign tags and write notes as necessary.
  • Once you've decided on a paper, tick/untick the switch for inclusion/exclusion.
  • After going through the list, click "Snowball from included papers" to find all citations and references of the included papers.
  • Go to step 3, rinse and repeat.

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