Connected Papers
Visual tool for exploring connections between research papers
Visit Connected Papers →What is Connected Papers?
Connected Papers is a unique visual tool that helps researchers explore and understand academic research by creating graphs of connected papers. Enter a paper, and Connected Papers generates a visual map showing similar papers based on co-citations and bibliographic coupling. The graph layout places similar papers close together, with node size indicating citation count. The platform uses colors to show publication year, helping identify seminal older papers and recent developments. Connected Papers helps researchers discover relevant work they might have missed, understand research evolution, identify key papers in a field, and find new research directions. The visual approach makes it easy to see research landscape at a glance.
✨ Key Features
- Visual paper graphs
- Similarity analysis
- Citation mapping
- Time-based coloring
- Prior works view
- Derivative works view
- Export options
- Paper recommendations
- Research landscape
- Interactive exploration
🎯 Use Cases
- Literature discovery
- Research landscape
- Citation exploration
- Finding related papers
- Understanding field evolution
- Identifying key papers
- Research planning
- Gap identification