{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/walk-backward-from-a-strong-paper",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0510",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Walk backward from a strong paper",
  "summary": "A good paper contains a map of the work that convinced its authors.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Inspect the references behind the claims or methods that matter. Follow the most relevant cited sources to their original records and repeat selectively. Backward citation searching is especially useful when terminology changed over time or the concept is difficult to express in one query.",
  "limits": [
    "Reference lists reflect author choices and can inherit citation bias; use citation searching as a supplement, not the only method."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-research-search-strategy"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-58E7CC33EB856484"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "TARCiS recommends backward and forward citation searching as supplementary methods particularly for topics that are difficult to capture reliably with text terms.",
      "source_id": "RS-58E7CC33EB856484",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Citation searching alone is not recommended when completeness of recall is the goal.",
      "locator": "Recommendations 2-4"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A strong recent paper uses terminology you did not know or sits in a topic that is hard to search by keywords."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Reference lists reflect author choices and can inherit citation bias; use citation searching as a supplement, not the only method."
  ],
  "example": "A 2026 review of AI metacognition can lead backward to earlier uncertainty-calibration experiments that use different labels.",
  "check": "Backward searching finds relevant original or earlier evidence that keyword search did not surface.",
  "steps": [
    "Choose a seed paper directly relevant to the question.",
    "Identify the section whose evidence you need.",
    "Inspect cited records supporting that section.",
    "Open the original relevant records, not only the seed's paraphrase.",
    "Add newly eligible records to the evidence map and terminology map."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-58E7CC33EB856484",
      "title": "Guidance on terminology, application, and reporting of citation searching: the TARCiS statement",
      "url": "https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj-2023-078384"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0510",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0511",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/walk-forward-to-see-what-changed-after-a-key-paper"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-F645BF33EA699D13",
      "title": "Search for evidence as a reproducible process, not a lucky query",
      "url": "/collections/search-for-evidence-as-a-reproducible-process-not-a-lucky-query"
    }
  ]
}