Once you've done some initial research and you have a few articles that are relevant to your research question. You could just use those articles in your review and go spend more time in the lab (or have a beer). If you do that you're missing a crucial step: looking for the context in which those articles were created. Knowing how to follow strands of research forward and back in time - following a citation chain - is an essential skill to have as a researcher.
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