Reference map

[miguelgrc]

Create a reference map/graph similar to e.g. Citation Gecko (also see this article), connected papers, inciteful or litmaps. The idea would be to exploit the information we already have about references and citations between papers, giving users a way of visualizing and finding relevant papers based on the current one, or on a list of provided initial (seed) papers. The graph could contain also information about authors or institutions (which would enable us to visualize also the papers written by one author or from one institution), which could be displayed or hidden.

This would be helpful for:

• Exploring a topic
• Finding relevant articles to cite when working on a paper
• At a bigger scale, for identifying research topics (which would be defined clusters in the graph). This could even work in conjunction with some clustering algorithm to better identify and label each topic (which could be also useful for Identify research trends #490).