I don't know if anyone has come across this term, but I just had to share it:
Citation Snowballing
I came across this term while reviewing an article for Assignment 3. It is essentially searching the cited articles in an academic article and reviewing them for key words. Presumably to see if those articles are relevant to the research at hand.
Great definition here from HLWIKI Canada.
I haven't heard this term before, but it makes sense to me and I find it very relevant to what we're doing. Is there software to automatically track and display "Snowballing" information or is it something that the individual needs to manually track through their own means? In searching for references I've experienced content snowballing first hand. It can be a bit overwhelming :-)
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard the term either, but can see how it would be helpful to start refining works to read to gain an understanding of the works already published. Interesting find!
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