Connected Papers is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.
How does it work?
- To create each graph, we analyze an order of ~50,000 papers and select the few dozen with the strongest connections to the origin paper.
- In the graph, papers are arranged according to their similarity. That means that even papers that do not directly cite each other can be strongly connected and very closely positioned. Connected Papers is not a citation tree.
- Our similarity metric is based on the concepts of Co-citation and Bibliographic Coupling. According to this measure, two papers that have highly overlapping citations and references are presumed to have a higher chance of treating a related subject matter.
- Our algorithm then builds a Force Directed Graph to distribute the papers in a way that visually clusters similar papers together and pushes less similar papers away from each other. Upon node selection we highlight the shortest path from each node to the origin paper in similarity space.
- Our database is connected to the Semantic Scholar Paper Corpus (licensed under ODC-BY). Their team has done an amazing job of compiling hundreds of millions of published papers across many scientific fields.
Our story
Connected Papers started as a weekend side project between friends. We've been working with academic papers for years and felt a great need for better tools for science and research.
When we saw how much this tool improved our own literature search workflows - and got increasingly more requests from friends and colleagues to use it - we committed to release it to the public.
You know... for science.
About us
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to friends who've really helped us along the way:
- Ofer Mustigman - Devops
Contact
Found a bug? Have a feature request? Want to get in touch?
Drop us a line at hello@connectedpapers.com.
Would you like to support Connected Papers and become one of our sponsors?
Please send us a message at sponsors@connectedpapers.com.