Connected Papers

Connected Papers is a visual tool that maps academic papers into a graph based on co-citation relationships, helping users surface literature relevant to a seed paper. It is aimed at researchers and applied scientists who need to find prior work, identify overlooked references, or understand the structure of a research field. The product draws on databases such as Semantic Scholar and PubMed to cover tens of millions of papers. It is commonly used as part of literature-review and discovery workflows across scientific disciplines.

Best for: Academic researchers and graduate students running literature reviews across scientific disciplines

• Finding prior and derivative works for a known paper
• Mapping the landscape of a research field
• Identifying overlooked references during a literature review
• Onboarding into a new sub-field by starting from a familiar paper

• Builds a graph of papers related to a given seed paper using co-citation analysis
• Surfaces prior works and derivative works for a starting paper
• Visual map of paper relationships rather than a linear list of results
• Indexes data from Semantic Scholar and PubMed
• Covers tens of millions of academic papers

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