What is Connected Papers?

Connected Papers is a platform that provides a visual graph to explore and discover academic papers. It allows users to enter a paper identifier, DOI, arXiv, paper URL, paper title, or Semantic Scholar paper URL, and build a graph of similar papers in the field.

How can I use Connected Papers?

Connected Papers can be used 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.