Explore academic papers in a visual graph

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You can use Connected Papers to:

Get a visual overview of a new academic field

Enter a typical paper and we'll build you a graph of similar papers in the field. Explore and build more graphs for interesting papers that you find - soon you'll have a real, visual understanding of the trends, popular works and dynamics of the field you're interested in.

Make sure you haven't missed an important paper

In some fields like Machine Learning, so many new papers are published it's hard to keep track. With Connected Papers you can just search and visually discover important recent papers. No need to keep lists.

Create the bibliography for your thesis

Start with the references that you will definitely want in your bibliography and use Connected Papers to fill in the gaps and find the rest!

Discover the most relevant prior and derivative works

Use our Prior Works view to find important ancestor works in your field of interest. Use our Derivative Works view to find literature reviews of the field, as well as recently published State of the Art that followed your input paper.

We support your scientific field

Whether you're a machine learning researcher, a biology student or a philosopher - we use the Semantic Scholar database which contains hundreds of millions of papers from all fields of science.

We grow by word of mouth

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ORNL Researcher
It made it much easier and faster for me to check what other papers have cited a work I'm interested in and identify any large works I missed; I found important papers in minutes that may have taken me hours to find digging through the references of one paper otherwise.

Fredrick Eghosa
At first, I thought Connected Papers was just another visualization tool, but then it flipped my whole approach to research. While working on a review of ethics in AI, the tool made unexpected connections among the papers that traditional searching wholly missed. Its display of older influential works and recent publications gave me a clear picture of how the field evolved. After months of regular use, it's become an essential part of my literature review toolkit.

ORNL Researcher
This resource is immensely useful to me in my research. My specific field of research focuses on field-guided slicing and toolpath planning for additive and subtractive manufacturing. This is an extremely new area of research with very little standard terminology to aid in the search of related articles. I have used Connected Papers multiple times to find related articles that I never would have found otherwise.

Livia Terenzi Alfonsi
@livia_alfonsi

Mind blowing discovery: @ConnectedPapers !! Very helpful tool to navigate the ocean of academic publications we live in. Seems perfect if you are starting a lit review #EconTwitter

Gates Palissery
@Gateskp

@ConnectedPapers is honestly The Best when it comes to finding papers (esp to present at lab meeting). So thankful for it 🙏

Ailie McWhinnie
@AilieMcwhinnie

I think I'm behind the times on this but for those yet to discover - @ConnectedPapers has just revolutionized lit review for me 🤯Put in paper and it creates a beautiful and interactive map of related papers. You can click on any to see the abstract and access the PDF!

PanickedPhD
@PanickedPhD

I’m just after discovering @ConnectedPapers and it’s such an AMAZING online free(!!!!) resource! Has helped me sooooo much for double checking I have all necessary references within my introduction! Wish I had known about it sooner! #phdlife #phdvoice #AcademicTwitter

Jennifer Moussa 🧬🦠
@MoussaJenni

@ConnectedPapers is a lifesaver! Been struggling for weeks to find related papers to my project until I remembered this amazing tool! 😍

Peter van Heusden
@pvanheus

This is VERY cool - I tried @ConnectedPapers out with the 2017 TB Profiler paper and it gave me a good selection of papers I both know & don't know in the field: connectedpapers.com/main/7e2f174971a9be403b9acb61eecbbe1d671b8f47/Integrating-informatics-tools-and-portable-sequencing-technology-for-rapid-detection-of-resistance-to-antituberculous-drugs/graph twitter.com/aljoharalsharif/status/1420073521078747143

Prof Inger Mewburn
@thesiswhisperer

I love @ConnectedPapers so much.

Andri
@andri9aria

I dreaded doing my first literature search for my PhD.. And then I came across @ConnectedPapers 🙏 My heart skipped a beat when I made my first graph. And now I can't stop talking about it 🎉 thank you for this wonderful tool!

Kush
@Kushlaaani

@ConnectedPapers might just be my new favorite thing

Paul Smyth
@smyth7

I don’t even want to begin to imagine the days/months/years of my life that @ConnectedPapers looks like it might have saved.

Sina Pinter
@PinterSina

I recently learned about @ConnectedPapers and it is amazing! It makes literature searches so easy! You can really easily find papers related to your research topic and directly read the abstracts. so helpful! I love science twitter! connectedpapers.com

Dr Lauren (Ell) Sadow
@LaurenSadow

@virtualnotviral Lit reviews are my nemesis. I’ve started using connectedpapers.com to help me find what’s actually important to read, and what draws on what. Changed my life for good discovering this site #VirtualNotViral

Massimo Pizzol ☮🇺🇦
@m_outreach

I just tried out @ConnectedPapers using some of my own publications. Amazing - insanely accurate in finding similar papers! This will change the way I make literature reviews from now on 👍www.connectedpapers.com

Sean Smart (he/him)
@SeanSmart14

I cannot stress how useful @ConnectedPapers is to the literature research phase of writing a paper, what used to take hours and a good amount of luck, now takes only a fraction of that! ( connectedpapers.com)

b.h.
I love your site and this project. It is absolutley amazing! Its perfectly designed for my brain. I can dive into my field of research and new fields within minutes.

Ingo Isphording
@IngoIsphording
No kidding, @ConnectedPapers revolutionized the way I review new literature. A major game changer / time saver!

Flavia Gomes 👩🏻‍🔬🧠
@Flaviammgomes

A few months ago I found @ConnectedPapers out and since then I've been using it constantly, especially now that I'm finalising my PhD thesis. It's a very helpful tool and massively increases productivity, making network graphs with papers connected to the one you're searching.