The document compares techniques for measuring research coverage in scientific papers, including HITS, Topical and Peripheral Coverage (TPC), and Topical Coverage (TC). An experiment on papers in information retrieval found that TPC provided the best results by identifying a diverse set of papers, recent papers, and papers covering various sub-topics. TPC and TC performed better than HITS at identifying seminal papers. Combining TPC and HITS may further improve identification of survey papers. The document concludes that the integrated TPC and HITS technique is best for building initial reading lists for literature review.