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title: Snowballing
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created: 2025-12-23T21:29:54Z
modified: 2025-12-23T21:31:23Z
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# Snowballing

Snowballing is a form of source discovery. Snowballing means
to start with a source, and travel forwards and backwards
in time with respect to citations. From this, one can find
closely related papers to an original source without too
much effort. 

Snowballing has been found in the literature to be an
efficient source of collecting relevant sources given a
certain topic. One needs to find the first bit of snow (a
good first resource), to start the snowball.