Connected Papers

Connected Papers is a visual tool designed to help researchers and academics explore scientific literature more effectively. By generating interactive graphs that represent relationships between research papers, it enables users to discover relevant publications, understand the evolution of research topics, and identify influential works in specific fields.

Key features:
- Visual Graph Representation: Generates a graph where nodes represent research papers and edges indicate relevance and connections between papers.
- Interactive Exploration: Allows users to click on nodes to view detailed information about each paper, including title, authors, abstract, and publication details.
- Related Papers Discovery: Helps users find papers closely related to a given publication, facilitating exploration of literature around specific topics.
- Influential Works Identification: Enables users to recognize seminal and influential papers by examining connections and centrality of nodes in the graph.
- Search Functionality: Provides the ability to search for specific papers by title, author, or keywords for quick location of relevant research.
- Filtering Options: Offers filtering capabilities to narrow down search results based on criteria such as publication year and journal.

How it works:
1. Users input a paper of interest by providing its title, DOI, or other identifying information.
2. Connected Papers generates a visual graph based on the input paper, displaying related papers and their connections.
3. Users explore the graph by clicking on nodes to view detailed information about each paper and navigate through the network of related research.

Integrations:
Connected Papers integrates with various academic databases and repositories to fetch and display paper information, typically working with major academic databases like PubMed, arXiv, and Google Scholar.

Use of AI:
Connected Papers utilizes advanced algorithms and possibly machine learning models to analyze and visualize the connections between papers.

Target users:
- Researchers and academics conducting literature reviews or exploring new research areas
- Graduate and undergraduate students looking for relevant papers for their theses or projects
- Academic librarians assisting patrons with research

How to access:
Connected Papers is available as a web application, accessible through modern web browsers.