Find your next paper, catch up on new work or put together a reading list. Here are a few places to start.
Based on the features described in About The Lit. Screenshots show the site in October 2026; results change as papers are added.
Looking for work on innovation? Search titles or abstracts, then narrow by journal and year. Open the promising papers, follow their references and copy the search link when you want to return to the same starting point.
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A useful paper is often the start of a reading list. Open its references to find earlier work, or use “Citing papers of” to find papers that build on it. Add journal, year or topic filters to keep the results relevant.
Citation searches cover papers in The Lit. The set grows as the citation graph fills in.
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Recently added papers brings together work added in the past four weeks, including working papers. Choose the journals you follow, or browse across the catalog when you want to see what is happening beyond your usual reading.
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Bring the papers for a class or project into a named list. Sign in, open Notes, tags & lists on a paper and add it to your list. Make the list public and send the link to students or co-authors.
Readers need no account. Your notes and tags stay private, and turning sharing off disables the link.
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Use Pre-print (Open Access) papers to show results with a free version available. Follow the pre-print link on the paper’s card to read it. This is especially handy when the published article sits behind a paywall.
A pre-print may differ from the published article.
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Want to see what Management Science publishes in entrepreneurship and innovation? Select that area and browse the papers, or narrow further by accepting editor. Information Systems Research and Marketing Science also have senior and associate editor filters.
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See which papers a given editor accepted, or browse the work published in a department or editorial area over the years. For example, select Management Science, Matt Marx and entrepreneurship and innovation, then use the year filter to follow how that body of work has changed.
These filters are available for selected journals that publish editorial information. Management Science accepting-editor and area data cover papers from 2011 onwards, where available.
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Open Analytics to see publication trends, collaboration patterns and citation flows. Choose journals and years to focus the charts, then use Author spotlight or Paper comparison to look more closely at the people and papers behind them.
Non-research items are excluded by default. Team-science and disruption measures are still in beta.
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Found a paper that belongs here? Sign in on Feedback and submit its DOI or citation. You can also suggest an SSRN, arXiv, NBER or OSF working paper by an author already in The Lit. The site checks the link and e-mails you the outcome.
Suggest a paper →Star papers, add a note about why each one matters and group them into named lists. Your library follows you across devices, so you can pick up where you left off.
Make a list public and send its link. Readers need no account, and your notes and tags stay private. Turn sharing off whenever you want to disable the link.
Open E-mail alerts in your account menu and choose the journals, authors, topics or editors you follow. Check the preview or send yourself a test e-mail before saving your alert.
Save default filters to open The Lit with the journals and editorial areas you read most. Connect your ORCID and opt in to My publications for a quick route to your own papers in the catalog.