Website Tool : "Connected Papers" - Explore connected papers in a visual graph

[wigglethemouse]

I thought this website tool might be useful for those folks wanting to see how papers are connected. There have been a few threads lately trying to chase back the early work of some investigators and how they may have affected the field.
https://www.connectedpapers.com/

Here is an example for the PACE protocol paper

Paper : Protocol for the PACE trial: A randomised controlled trial of adaptive pacing, cognitive behaviour therapy, and graded exercise as supplements to standardised specialist medical care versus standardised specialist medical care alone for patients with the chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomye
https://bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2377-7-6

Connected Papers Reports :

1 : Graphs:
https://www.connectedpapers.com/mai...ic-fatigue-syndromemyalgic-encephalomye/graph

How to read the graph
Each node is an academic paper related to the origin paper.

Papers are arranged according to their similarity (this is not a citation tree)
Node size is the number of citations
Node color is the publishing year
Similar papers have strong connecting lines and cluster together

2 : Prior Works : for example it shows link to Sharpe - 1991 - "A Report–Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Guidelines for Research"
https://www.connectedpapers.com/mai...ic-fatigue-syndromemyalgic-encephalomye/prior

Prior works
These are papers that were most commonly cited by the papers in the graph.

This usually means that they are important seminal works for this field and it could be a good idea to get familiar with them.

Selecting a prior work will highlight all graph papers referencing it, and selecting a graph paper will highlight all referenced prior work.

3 : Derivative works :
https://www.connectedpapers.com/mai...tigue-syndromemyalgic-encephalomye/derivative

Derivative works
These are papers that cited many of the papers in the graph.

This usually means that they are either surveys of the field or recent relevant works which were inspired by many papers in the graph.

Selecting a derived work will highlight all graph papers cited by it, and selecting a graph paper will highlight all derivative works citing it.

Enjoy playing.........

 

[Mike Dean]

This looks fascinating @wigglethemouse and potentially quite a find. Did you screenshot the output? I ask because I can't find the save or export function.

 

[wigglethemouse]

This looks fascinating @wigglethemouse and potentially quite a find. Did you screenshot the output? I ask because I can't find the save or export function.

Yes I did screen shot using the Win10 snip tool. Yeah a save or export function would be nice - apparently it's the most requested feature



The source for this comment is a blog by one of the developers announcing this new website. It's an interesting read.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kjQ...onnected-papers-a-visual-tool-for-researchers