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Masters_Thesis/02-literature
Cormac Shannon 95b5857189 Add literature review protocol, searches and first snowball round
Six seeds snowballed (Semantic Scholar) plus logged keyword searches
(OpenAlex, arXiv): 2,127 unique records, 480 title/abstract screened.
AI first-pass suggestions are in their own column; decisions are pending.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01S8KN7NuUCm8nXLmy6eDuVv
2026-10-28 18:00:06 +00:00
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02-literature

File What
protocol.md Start here. Review questions, seeds, search strings, criteria, snowballing, flow counts, LLM-use justification
search/search-log.csv Every search and snowball step that was run: date, source, exact query, hit count
search/screening.csv All 2,127 de-duplicated records. Fill the decision (include/exclude/maybe) and reason columns. ai_proposal is Claude's first-pass suggestion only
search/results/*.csv Raw results, one file per search / snowball step
extraction-table.csv One row per proposed include. Bibliographic columns prefilled; the rest is for your full-text reading
references.bib BibTeX for the CS6513 paper's references, from arXiv metadata. Import into Zotero
citation-check.md Errors found in the CS6513 paper's references
qknorm-research-findings.md Earlier (July/Aug) prior-art notes
tools/ Scripts (Python stdlib only, no installs)

Re-running

cd 02-literature
python3 tools/search.py openalex '"qk-norm"|"query-key normalization"' --out S1-openalex-qknorm
python3 tools/search.py arxiv 'abs:"qk norm"' --out A1-arxiv-qknorm
python3 tools/s2.py refs 2309.14322 --out snowball-back-wortsman2024     # backward snowball
python3 tools/s2.py cites 2309.14322 --out snowball-fwd-wortsman2024     # forward snowball
python3 tools/merge.py          # rebuilds screening.csv, keeps your decisions
python3 tools/arxiv2bib.py key=2309.14322 >> references.bib

Semantic Scholar rate-limits unauthenticated use badly. A free key (semanticscholar.org/product/api) set as S2_API_KEY fixes it.

Zotero

  1. Install Zotero + the Better BibTeX plugin.
  2. File → Import → references.bib.
  3. Better BibTeX → right-click the collection → Export → "Keep updated" → references.bib, so Zotero becomes the source of truth from then on.