Best Plugin for Scientific Literature Research?

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I’m working on an experimental process now for surfacing relevant literature, I tried it out on your third example and this is what it came up with.

  1. DOI:10.1007/s11367-016-1062-4
    Environmental Impact assessment of a semi-intensive beef cattle production in Brazil’s Northeast
    C. Willers, Henrique Leonardo Maranduba, +1 author L. Rodrigues
    Published 1 April 2017
    The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

  2. DOI:10.34117/bjdv6n11-105
    ANÁLISE DOS FATORES QUE CAUSAM IMPACTO AMBIENTAL NA PRODUÇÃO DE BOVINOCULTURA DE CORTE / ANALYSIS OF FACTORS THAT CAUSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ON THE PRODUCTION OF CUTTING CATTLE
    Ramon Luan Pereira da Silva, Lilian Natália Ferreira Lima, +5 authors Renilda Silva Soares
    Published 2020
    Brazilian Journal of Development

  3. DOI:10.1007/s10457-019-00460-x
    Silvopastoral management of beef cattle production for neutralizing the environmental impact of enteric methane emission
    Leonardo Resende, Marcelo Dias Müller, +4 authors L. Rego
    Published 7 November 2019
    Agroforestry Systems

  4. DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-47647-x
    Biochar amendment improves degraded pasturelands in Brazil: environmental and cost-benefit analysis
    A. Latawiec, B. Strassburg, +16 authors S. Hale
    Published 19 August 2019
    Scientific Reports

  5. DOI:10.1093/jas/skab235.771
    PSVIII-19 Greenhouse gas emissions from beef cattle production in Brazil: how we can mitigate from animal operations?
    Andre Pastori D Aurea, A. Cardoso, +3 authors Yuri Santa Rosa Guimarães
    Published 8 October 2021
    Journal of Animal Science

As this is well outside my area of expertise I don’t know if thiese are quite the type of result you’d be hoping to surface. To my lay understanding they don’t seem terrible.

I think I need to do some tweaking to weight results by journal and author reputation, maybe citation count, etc in order to preferentially surface more significant papers then also somehow balance that with recency.

Maybe find the most important papers relevant to a query, then find papers which cite many of the most important papers, filter to the last 3–5 years, then select some subset of those most relevant to the original query, then sort that list by summer measure of importance based on journal, author, and citation count…

I think there’s a lot to be done here because I think most of the existing plugins are doing fairly naive searches.

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