Mind mapping for reading and understanding scientific literature

Author: 
Jose M Guerrero and Pilar Ramos

Reading scientific literature requires a great commitment of time and effort. However, the advantages of reading original research and review articles make this commitment worthwhile.

The article has to be read and it has to be understood. This paper is an introduction to the experiment that we are going run in a few months. It will attempt to prove that the mind mapping technique is an effective way of increasing the productivity of both research and clinical teams when reading and understanding scientific literature.

Mind mapping helps the reader to identify the problems that the article is trying to solve and the solutions proposed by the authors.

In the future, mind mapping automation will help digital indexing and navigation systems like Scopus, PubMed or CiteSeer to increase the efficiency of scientific literature reading and understanding.

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