Connected Papers

Connected Papers is a web tool that helps researchers and students visually explore academic literature. Users enter a paper identifier (DOI, arXiv ID, Semantic Scholar URL, PubMed URL, or paper title) and the tool generates an interactive graph of related papers based on citation similarity. The graph highlights influential prior works, derivative works, and recent state-of-the-art papers. It uses the Semantic Scholar database, which covers hundreds of millions of papers across all scientific fields. Connected Papers is useful for getting a visual overview of a new field, ensuring no important papers are missed, creating bibliographies for theses, and discovering relevant prior and derivative works.

Key Benefits

• Provides a visual overview of related papers in a field
• Helps discover important prior and derivative works
• Supports multiple paper identifiers (DOI, arXiv, etc.)
• Uses the extensive Semantic Scholar database