Ten Simple Rules for Writing a Literature Review

Scientometrics of Forest Health and Tree Diseases: An Overview

“…Indeed, "not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted" [92]. Most scientometric indexes are (sub)field specific, thus making comparisons of publications, researchers, journals and institutions among (sub)fields of little value [93][94][95] Just as when searching the literature for writing a literature review or a research paper, there is the need to use multiple databases and to be creative with the keywords used [99]. It is worth repeating that different databases have their strengths and weaknesses; for example, Web of Science focuses on journals with an impact factor, thus excluding much of the grey literature.…”

“…A similar method can be used to study bibliometric patterns. Just as when searching the literature for writing a literature review or a research paper, there is the need to use multiple databases and to be creative with the keywords used [99]. It is worth repeating that different databases have their strengths and weaknesses; for example, Web of Science focuses on journals with an impact factor, thus excluding much of the grey literature.…”

Publishing papers while keeping everything in balance: Practical advice for a productive graduate school experience

“…Similarly, the PLOS Computational Biology "10 simple rules" collection contains dozens of short articles focused on specific, useful topics (http://collections. plos.org/ten-simple-rules): rules for structuring papers (Mensh and Kording 2017), writing science (Pautasso 2013, Weinberger et al 2015, Zhang 2014, doing your best research (Erren et al 2007), advice for graduate students generally (Gu and Bourne 2007), and many more. I'd also recommend reading Stearns (1987) and the reply from Huey (1987), as well as Lawton (1992) and Smol (2016) for additional early career advice from a range of perspectives (see a summary of these resources in Table 1).…”

Una Guía Corta para Escribir Revisiones Sistemáticas de Literatura. Parte 4

“…Otro aspecto muy importante es el uso apropiado de herramientas de software para el manejo de las referencias [9][4], tales como Zotero, Mendeley, Papers, Sente, Qiqqa, EndNote, Reference Manaer o ProCite, ya que el número final de documentos puede ser muy grande. Algunos gestores de referencias bibliográficas como Papers o Mendeley, permiten que el usuario pueda administrar los documentos, agregar notas y resaltar o subrayar textos directamente en los documentos.…”