alt Hacker NewsI remember similar kind of visualization from a decade ago, called paperscape. Looked cool, worked on clustering using citations and references.
Never got any idea on any use case that would be covered by such visualizations, apart from looking cool.
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That's usually the case with graph visualizations or clustering for networks, imo (beyond revealing obvious statistics(
Hello, I agree with you, viz are just cool and might not really have a usecase. In this project map is not the product, it is 1 of 4 parts and to be honest the least important. The value is what is under each dot, the enriched page (TLDR, genes/drugs/diseases, trials, protein structures, code, datasets, full text, images, reviews, etc) and the MCP for agents. You are welcome to use whichever part of the project is most useful to you (whether that is the map, paper pages, browser extension, or MCP).
ResearchRabbit is free and has this feature!
https://www.researchrabbit.ai/
ConnectedPapers also has this but they started to limit unless you pay:
https://www.connectedpapers.com/
A few other ones I know of:
https://litmaps.com
https://consensus.app/home/features/citation-graph/