PhD Students – How to automatically extract data from papers for your literature review? Extracting relevant data from papers is challenging. However, this process can be automated. Meet AnswerThis – a tool that extracts data in seconds. Here is how it works. 1. Go to and log in. 2.... After logging in, click on 𝐸𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎. 3. Then click on 𝑈𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑃𝐷𝐹 and upload your papers. 4. These are the papers from which you want to extract data. 5. After uploading papers, select data you want to extract. 6. The predefined options are - Key findings - Research gaps - Methodology - Limitations - Future work - Contributions - Practical implications 7. You can also extract custom data e.g., dataset used. 8. For example, I want to extract methodology used in these papers. 9. I selected 𝑀𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 and clicked on 𝐴𝑑𝑑 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑛. 10. AnswerThis extract data about methodology used in the papers. 11. You can change data view from normal to Table View. 12. For this, scroll back to top and click on 𝑇𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑉𝑖𝑒𝑤. 13. Now for instance, you want to extract more data from these papers. 14. Go back to the top and click on 𝐸𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎. 15. Select the data type you want to extract. 16. For example, I want to extract data about future work. 17. So I click on 𝐹𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑘 and then clicked on 𝐴𝑑𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑛. 18. AnswerThis extracted data about future work from the papers. 19. After extracting the desired data, you can export it. 20. Select the data you want to extract. 21. Then click on 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎. 22. Your data will be exported in CSV format. You can then analyze this data for your literature review. Try AnswerThis today: Anything you'd like to add?show more

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