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id: 20251223162954
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title: Snowballing
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type: permanent
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created: 2025-12-23T21:29:54Z
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modified: 2025-12-23T21:31:23Z
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tags: []
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# Snowballing
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Snowballing is a form of source discovery. Snowballing means
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to start with a source, and travel forwards and backwards
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in time with respect to citations. From this, one can find
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closely related papers to an original source without too
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much effort.
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Snowballing has been found in the literature to be an
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efficient source of collecting relevant sources given a
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certain topic. One needs to find the first bit of snow (a
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good first resource), to start the snowball.
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