Connected Papers
Connected Papers is a visual tool designed to help researchers and applied scientists discover academic papers relevant to their field.
Connected Papers is a visual tool designed to help researchers and applied scientists discover academic papers relevant to their field.
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- What is Connected Papers?
- Connected Papers is a visual tool designed to help researchers and applied scientists discover academic papers relevant to their field. It allows users to get a visual overview of a research field, identify the most popular papers, explore the dynamics between different areas of study, and ensure they haven't missed key papers. The tool supports bi-directional exploration, enabling users to discover both prior and derivative works related to their area of interest. It leverages the Semantic Scholar database, containing hundreds of millions of papers from all fields of science.
- Who is it for?
- PhD students and postdocs who need to map an unfamiliar research area before a literature review; better than Google Scholar for seeing citation structure at a glance rather than a ranked list.
- Pricing
- Freemium
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What this product does
Connected Papers is a visual tool designed to help researchers and applied scientists discover academic papers relevant to their field. It allows users to get a visual overview of a research field, identify the most popular papers, explore the dynamics between different areas of study, and ensure they haven't missed key papers. The tool supports bi-directional exploration, enabling users to discover both prior and derivative works related to their area of interest. It leverages the Semantic Scholar database, containing hundreds of millions of papers from all fields of science.
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- Web
- iOS
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- Gemini
- Midjourney
Problem Solved
What problem does Connected Papers solve?
Visual tool for researchers to find and explore relevant academic papers.
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Who built Connected Papers?
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- Connected Papers is a visual tool designed to help researchers and applied scientists discover academic papers relevant to their field. It allows users to get a visual overview of a research field, identify the most popular papers, explore the dynamics between different areas of study, and ensure they haven't missed key papers. The tool supports bi-directional exploration, enabling users to discover both prior and derivative works related to their area of interest. It leverages the Semantic Scholar database, containing hundreds of millions of papers from all fields of science.
- Live since
- Mar 2023
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Connected Papers is a visual literature-mapping tool that builds a graph of related academic papers from a single seed paper, using the Semantic Scholar corpus. It is used by researchers, graduate students, and applied scientists to find prior and derivative works without manually chaining citations.
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Best-fit workflows
- Getting a visual overview of a new academic field
- Ensuring no key papers are missed in a field with a large volume of new publications
- Creating a bibliography for a thesis
- Discovering relevant prior and derivative works
- Generates a citation graph from a single seed paper to reveal the most-cited ancestors and most-recent derivatives in one view.
- Maps an unfamiliar subfield before a systematic review by expanding from a known paper into adjacent clusters.
Pricing reality
Vendor stated
Free to use with no published paid tier at the time of writing.
Actual cost
Free access is the primary model; costs are indirect (time spent, reliance on Semantic Scholar coverage).
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Pricing reality
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Free
USD 0/mo
- 5 graphs per month
- All features included
Academic
USD 3/mo
- Unlimited graphs
- All features included
- For academics, non-profits and personal use, *billed 36 USD annually
Academic Library
Request a Quote/mo
- Unlimited graphs
- All features included
- Open for all students and staff
- IP and SSO access options
- Zero-effort integration
Business
USD 10/mo
- Unlimited graphs
- All features included
- For business and industry, *billed 120 USD annually
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Monthly visits
728.1K
Avg visit duration
00:02:03
Pages per visit
3.41
Bounce rate
47.01%
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| Keyword | Segment | Traffic | CPC |
|---|---|---|---|
| connected papers | Brand term | 60.22K | |
| connected paper | Brand term | 3.88K | |
| connectedpapers | Brand term | 3.25K | |
| connected papers ai | Brand term | 2K | |
| conected papers | Brand term | 490 |
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