After a long beta, we are launching!
Connected Papers is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.
Connected Papers partners with
@arxiv
!
We're excited to announce that starting today, every abstract page on will link to a graph of Connected Papers.
Read more:
New feature: Download List.
From now on you can download any list of papers in Connected Papers in the .bib format, for keeping offline or importing into your favorite reference manager.
🔥MULTI-ORIGIN GRAPHS feature is OUT!🔥
Our
#1
most requested feature makes it possible to add any paper from a graph as an origin to further refine your search.
Now you can tell the algorithm: "show me more papers like these, please" 🤖
Go ahead and try it out!
So, this week Connected Papers went viral on multiple fronts. Hundreds of thousands of new visitors and over 100k new graphs were created in just a few days - causing our servers to crash and burn.
It's been amazing and exhausting.
/thread by Eddie Smolyansky (co-founder) [1/12]
"Drowning in the literature?"
A fantastic article in
@Nature
(by
@DavidMJourno
) covering Connected Papers and other tools for dealing with the academic papers overload that we are all experiencing.
“You do not have to have that FOMO feeling”!
This is cool! Connected Papers was mentioned several times in "The Goldilocks Map".
It's the story of a classroom teacher's quest to evaluate science-based teaching advice using modern literature review tools and a healthy dose of applied critical thinking.
❄️❄️❄️ Season's Greetings! ❄️❄️❄️
It's snowing in Connected Papers.
For the next few weeks, our graphs will be made out of festive snow crystals.
For the Grinches out there, there's also a toggle to turn it off :)
Happy holidays! 🤗
Connected Papers with Code!
Today we are partnering with the awesome
@paperswithcode
to add links to code implementations for all papers that have them.
Sharing code should become a true industry standard when publishing papers in software sciences.
New feature: links to external resources in the paper details panel.
For every paper in the graph you can now find direct links to Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, PubMed, arXiv, the publisher page, and most importantly - the PDF!
❄️❄️❄️ Season's Greetings! ❄️❄️❄️
It's snowing in Connected Papers.
For the next few weeks, our graphs will be made out of festive snow crystals.
For the Grinches out there, there's also a toggle to turn it off :)
Happy holidays! 🤗
New feature: Graph History!
As the paper database grows and citations are added, the graphs for each paper change and evolve over time.
We've now added an option to view previous versions of each graph. It's pretty cool to see the graph's history and evolution!
Big UX update 🔥
New graphs now open in separate browser tabs!
- Easier to keep track of open graphs
- Save individual graphs as bookmarks
- Ctrl+click 🖱️ to open graphs in the background
- Quicker and slicker graph loading
Behind the scenes, this required multiple changes >
🧵
New Feature: Highlight path to origin.
Mouse-over or selection of a node now highlights the shortest path in similarity space from the node to the origin.
Also - clicking anywhere on the background deselects the nodes and highlights the origin.
New feature: links to external resources in the paper details panel.
For every paper in the graph you can now find direct links to Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, PubMed, arXiv, the publisher page, and most importantly - the PDF!
Big UX update!
We've redesigned the Search By Title experience. Results are shown as slick, interactive paper cards:
Click anywhere on a card to build a graph for the selected paper.
Click the small icons to open papers in
@SemanticScholar
,
@arxiv
, PubMed, or PDF.
1/3
New blog post: our first Community Update!
- Blown away by the reception to our launch
- How we are solving funding
- Upgrades to the server infrastructure
- Deeper partnership with
@SemanticScholar
- Our plans for the future
Connected Papers partners with the
#EACL2021
Conference on Computational Linguistics.
These events can be overwhelming with thousands of papers to sift through and prioritize.
Our graphs embed straight into the conference pages for a visual exploration of the presented papers.
We would also like to reassure you:
We're more committed than ever to our mission of increasing productivity for researchers everywhere and empowering the scientific community.
Connected Papers is here to stay and to grow.
Stay tuned. [12/12]
I'm not sure that people realize that on the other side of their screen, there's a team of 4 friends, doing their best to keep the service alive and putting out fires. Sometimes running around like headless chickens. It's funny but for us, this is still a side project! [9/12]
Introducing Connected Papers for conferences!
A special version of our graphs, embedded into the conference website, built for enhanced browsing and navigation of the conference papers.
A big shoutout to
@ConnectedPapers
and
@SemanticScholar
, who ingested our papers ahead of anthology publication, built a graph for each of them, and built a custom version of their website for us in just 2 weeks!
We’re excited to announce our
@ConnectedPapers
integration to help you create outstanding research results!
Collect via one-click on Connected Papers, annotate, take notes, build knowledge—all in RemNote.
Read more on our new integration page
Kudos to
@Quantum_Stat
for releasing The NLP Index -
An easily searchable aggregator of 3,000+ Neural Language Processing papers.
Each paper includes links to the corresponding code and Connected Papers graph.
Video Tutorial: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵? A free and useful tool for academic research by Qiusheng Wu
@giswqs
Cool graph!
A nice demonstration of the Connected Papers similarity engine at work.
Opposing hypotheses are naturally divided into visual clusters, which helps in getting a good overview of the field.
Can Modern Evolutionary Theory Explain Macroevolution? Scientific issues are not democratic, but according to
@ConnectedPapers
algorithm, the research community in evolution lately goes for NO... That's great ! 1/2
This has been one of the most requested quality of life improvements, so we're excited to release it. Find the download button in the expanded list view as well as the Prior and derivative works views.
For the past year we’ve been meeting on weekends and prototyping a tool that would allow a very different type of search process for academic papers. As we got increasingly more requests from friends and colleagues to use it — we committed to release it to the public.
@CaraADavidson
@OpenAcademics
@AcademicChatter
This is why we exist!
You can use Connected Papers to:
👉 Get a visual overview of a new academic field
👉 Make sure you haven't missed an important paper
👉 Create the bibliography for your thesis
👉 Discover the most relevant prior and derivative works
The link is under the Related Papers tab in the bottom area.
Clicking leads directly to the Connected Papers graph which originates from that specific paper.
"Exploring Existential Risk - using Connected Papers to find Effective Altruism aligned articles and researchers"
Wonderful work by Maris Sala, Carel Kuusk,
@aatomik
during the Existential Hackathon event made by Effective Altruism Estonia. Bravo!
A wonderful video introduction to Connected Papers and other useful tools by
@patrickpflu
, who also shared the viral TikTok video about us last week.
Check out his Youtube and TikTok channels for more tools and guides which are useful for academics!
On Sunday, a Tik Tok video about us went viral, quickly gaining over 1M views and over 1000 supportive comments. This came out of nowhere - nobody on our team even uses TikTok. Apparently, a huge audience of researchers is hanging there. Check it: [2/12]
Due to a technical issue, searching by paper title is currently disabled. For now please look for papers using one of the other identification methods (like DOI, Semantic Scholar URL, arXiv URL, or PubMed).
@Mtrl_Scientist
@ndrewwang
@AcademicChatter
Hey, VOSviewer is great! But not at all the same as Connected Papers, which gives you a *similarity* graph. In our graph papers can be close and strongly linked without directly citing each other.
Try it out!
@rem_note
is the missing link for all you
#Researcher
(s) out there!
Now, you can:
1. Save Papers, Web-links, and PDFs with a click using the new RemNote Clipper!
Let
@rem_note
do all the Metadata collection automatically for you!
🔥MULTI-ORIGIN GRAPHS feature is OUT!🔥
Our
#1
most requested feature makes it possible to add any paper from a graph as an origin to further refine your search.
Now you can tell the algorithm: "show me more papers like these, please" 🤖
Go ahead and try it out!
To our wonderful community of users, we want to say: thank you so much for all the support and for spreading the word! The only way for Connected Papers to grow is by word of mouth. [11/12]
New feature: Report errors in paper metadata.
Found a bad title? Wrong spelling in your author name? Duplicate papers?
Let us know and we can improve the database together! Your feedback will be shared directly with the fantastic team at
@semanticscholar
.
Connected Papers started as a side project between friends. We’ve felt the pains of academic literature review and exploration for years and kept thinking about how to solve it.
Much thanks to
@ContiMazza
for introducing me to
@ConnectedPapers
- a really creative and visual tool to discover new science lit to read! Read what I think about it here and join me in my excitement:
"The scientific method has lent a good part of its overall approach and practices to data-driven analytics, software development, and data science. Now data science and software lend some tools to scientific research."
Shout outs to the great EACL team who initiated this partnership and to the awesome team at
@SemanticScholar
for the bibliography parsing that enabled our graphs.
Paper in the GIF by
@Evanmassenhove
and
@DShterionov
.
"Connected Papers is the latest addition to an emerging ecosystem for research" [...] "It started as a weekend side project between friends, and then it got traction. Today, it is self-funded and free to use"
New graphs can now be opened in new/background tabs with ctrl-click or middle-mouse-button click 🖱️
This works from all screens:
Search, graph view, auto-complete, etc.
@ZenGo
are a deep tech company through and through with world class researchers in Blockchain and Cryptography. They've been using Connected Papers since our inception and we are extremely proud to have them as one of our first
#sponsors
!
[Research tip]
ZenGo is built on cutting edge academic research.
Today we share one of our secret weapons with you 🎁
@ConnectedPapers
is reinventing the research process with its visual research tool.
Our team fell in love with it, and so will you.
This propagated into Twitter, with this tweet by
@amberbrownruiz
bringing in another huge wave of users. Both shares didn't mention us directly so it took us a bit of time to realize where the traffic was coming from. Absolutely bonkers. [3/12]
Meanwhile, as Connected Papers was going viral, our strategy on social media was to... hide. We didn't want to add more fuel to the fire - we preferred that existing users get a good experience than to reach even more new ones. Besides, we didn't have the attention to spare. [8/]
Thanks to this episode, Connected Papers is stronger and more robust than ever (still working on external APIs). We also have plans in place for the next big scaling steps. [10/12]
"In the long run we want to continue building products that bring the research experience to the 21st century, specifically when it comes to working with academic papers in a global, open, collaborative research environment.
We are just getting started."
Our
#sponsors
,
@TheRealDAGsHub
are tackling the scientific reproducibility challenge. As they say: "When research is reproducible, everyone benefits."
If you're in Machine Learning, check out their challenge and earn💸$500 per paper reproduced! Wow.
#MachineLearning
Reproducibility Challenge 2021 Spring Edition - $500 per paper reproduced. It's simple...
1. Claim a paper
2. Join the community
3. Get rewarded!
It's back - "search by paper title" is working again (stable for the last hour). We know what the problem was but the bad news is that it could theoretically happen again (depends on an external factor). We're working to resolve this more permanently.
@YaakovChenZion
@itamarcaspi
@zeevikim
@DuduLagziel
היי! אנחנו במקרה ישראלים :)
@DuduLagziel
בנינו את האתר כדי לשפר ולהקל על תהליך סקר הספרות באקדמיה. מכניסים כקלט מאמר אחד רלוונטי, ואנחנו בונים גרף ויזואלי של עשרות מאמרים דומים, מאורגנים לפי דמיון, כמות ציטוטים ושנת פרסום. בנוסף אפשר לראות רשימה של מאמרים קדמונים ומאמרי המשך.
Big kudos to
@emnlp2020
for reaching out and experimenting with us, and to our data-partners
@SemanticScholar
for parsing the conference papers in record time. What a fun sprint together!
We scaled our operations 10x in a day. At some points, we had more than 100 servers up and crunching new graphs for new users. We were mostly ready for this, but some unexpected bottlenecks were discovered. [6/12]
During the week, we've also experienced several sudden surges of hundreds of users all building graphs at once, probably as a result of big shares in local communities, or (we suspect), virtual meetups where the lecturer asked the audience to test out the tool in real-time. [4/]
@JoshuaZvi
Hey Joshua, you can download the papers in the graph as a list and then use other tools to convert to .ris or other formats.
Hope this helps!
New feature: Download List.
From now on you can download any list of papers in Connected Papers in the .bib format, for keeping offline or importing into your favorite reference manager.
@lela_eight
@ndrewwang
@AcademicChatter
Don't worry, we're limiting the amount of papers in every graph to a manageable amount, and most connections are very light and are there to help you easily distinguish between clusters. Also check out prior and derivative works for short lists of relevant papers 🦾
While this explosion in users was amazing to witness, it also meant that many of our services became slow or broke down at peak traffic. We all took days off our day-jobs and threw ourselves at the problem of keeping the servers alive and responsive. [5/12]
We've made the graph creation process quicker* and slicker - now with a skeleton loading page and helpful progress reports. ✨
* Reminder - most graphs load instantly. The loading process happens only for graphs that have never been requested before by anyone else.
Pro tip: *ctrl + click* a paper to build its graph in the background, without leaving the search page.
The graph will be added to "My graphs" in the top right of the navbar.
This is useful if you want to open multiple results in parallel.
2/3
Our external APIs broke as we got past our agreed rate-limits. Our database was straining under the number of simultaneous requests. Some bugs that can only happen when our system is at certain kinds of max capacity turned up to say hi. [7/12]
@AlixLahuec
@eurunuela
Hi Alix, we took this as a task for the weekend and created an API that redirects DOI, Semantic Scholar, arXiv and PubMed links to our graph pages.
Hopefully, this is what you needed in addition to the search API :) Enjoy!
8/ With the launch of Premium accounts we are trying out a new business model that will hopefully allow us to continue to follow our passion and develop more and better tools for scientists and researchers.
We are very excited about the future. We hope you are, too!
New feature: Download List.
From now on you can download any list of papers in Connected Papers in the .bib format, for keeping offline or importing into your favorite reference manager.