Researchers often begin new projects by conducting a broad State-of-the-Art review before they are ready to define the narrow protocol required by a systematic review. This is especially common in multidisciplinary areas where terminology is unstable, communities are weakly connected, and relevant work is dispersed across technical and application domains. This paper presents SotA Lens, a network-augmented methodology and lightweight software toolkit for exploratory State-of-the-Art reviews. The approach combines documented seed search, DOI-level metadata resolution, bounded citation expansion, directed graph construction, community detection, ranking of authors and subject terms, and human labelling of research communities. It is designed to complement, not replace, established review protocols such as PRISMA, PRISMA-ScR, systematic mapping studies, and bibliometric science mapping. The method is demonstrated through a proof-of-concept review of Dynamic Projection-Mapping and Spatial Augmented Reality. Starting from approximately 200 seed search results, the workflow produced a citation graph with 2,198 DOI-level vertices and 8,249 reference edges; a filtered largest component for 2010-2023 contained 986 vertices, 2,693 edges, and sixteen labelled communities. The contribution is both methodological and practical: SotA Lens helps researchers map broad fields, identify clusters and gaps, and produce auditable review artifacts before committing to a narrower systematic review protocol. This paper is not intended as a domain survey of Dynamic Projection-Mapping or Spatial Augmented Reality; rather, it introduces and demonstrates an original review-support methodology and software artifact using that domain as a proof-of-concept case study.

翻译：研究人员在开展系统性综述所需严格限定方案之前，往往需要先进行广泛的前沿综述。这在术语不稳定、学术社群联系薄弱、相关研究分散于技术领域与应用领域的跨学科领域尤为常见。本文提出SotA Lens——一种用于探索性前沿综述的网络增强方法论及轻量级软件工具包。该方法融合了文献种子检索、DOI级元数据解析、受限引文扩展、有向图构建、社群检测、作者与主题词排序以及研究社群的人工标注。其设计旨在补充而非取代既有的综述方案（如PRISMA、PRISMA-ScR、系统映射研究与文献计量科学图谱）。通过动态投影映射与空间增强现实的概念验证综述对该方法进行了演示：从约200条种子检索结果出发，工作流程生成包含2,198个DOI级顶点与8,249条引用边的引文图；经筛选后2010-2023年的最大连通分量包含986个顶点、2,693条边及16个已标注社群。本文的贡献兼具方法论与实践意义——SotA Lens能够帮助研究人员在确定更严格的系统综述方案之前，完成广泛领域图谱绘制、识别研究集群与空白，并生成可溯源的综述产物。需要说明的是：本文并非针对动态投影映射或空间增强现实的领域综述，而是以该领域作为概念验证案例，介绍并演示一种原创的综述支持方法论与软件工具。