Visual Exploration of Literature Using Connected Papers: A Practical Approach

The paper aims to examine the visual exploration tool "Connected Papers" (www.connectedpapers.com), which identifies relevant literature based on content similarities and displays the result in the form of visual clusters. Connected Papers searches through Semantic Scholar literature corp...

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Main Authors: Prashanta Kumar Behera, Sanmati Jinendran Jain, Ashok Kumar
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Published: University of Alberta Library 2023-10-01
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description The paper aims to examine the visual exploration tool "Connected Papers" (www.connectedpapers.com), which identifies relevant literature based on content similarities and displays the result in the form of visual clusters. Connected Papers searches through Semantic Scholar literature corpus and discovers the most relevant related research papers using a specialized algorithm. The researcher will have to identify the most relevant paper as an "origin paper" among the retrieved papers. The origin paper acts as a base for the formation of a literature graph based on similarities. The unique features (i.e. "Prior" and "Derivate") help a researcher to identify the most relevant literature. In this paper, the topic "Use of drones in Agriculture" is selected to demonstrate the process of literature exploration using Connected Papers. A set of relevant papers is retrieved, out of which the researcher will have to select one of the most appropriate relevant papers. That paper is termed as the origin paper to create the visualization of literature. Connected Papers suggests the most relevant papers based on the search keywords, but the graph is solely based on a researcher's judgement when selecting an origin paper. As explained in the paper, the researcher of other domains may adopt the process to understand the literature mapping phenomena for their own discipline.  
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spelling doaj-art-4cccbda2042848c2a32f94365744118e2025-08-20T03:56:49ZengUniversity of Alberta LibraryIssues in Science and Technology Librarianship1092-12062023-10-0110410.29173/istl2760Visual Exploration of Literature Using Connected Papers: A Practical ApproachPrashanta Kumar Behera0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7225-2379Sanmati Jinendran Jain1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3444-2857Ashok Kumar 2https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3279-2895Assistant Librarian, PK Kelkar Library, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, UP-208016, IndiaJunior Library Information Superintendent, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Goa, Ponda, Goa - 403401, IndiaAssistant Professor, Faculty of Library and Information Science, School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi – 110068 The paper aims to examine the visual exploration tool "Connected Papers" (www.connectedpapers.com), which identifies relevant literature based on content similarities and displays the result in the form of visual clusters. Connected Papers searches through Semantic Scholar literature corpus and discovers the most relevant related research papers using a specialized algorithm. The researcher will have to identify the most relevant paper as an "origin paper" among the retrieved papers. The origin paper acts as a base for the formation of a literature graph based on similarities. The unique features (i.e. "Prior" and "Derivate") help a researcher to identify the most relevant literature. In this paper, the topic "Use of drones in Agriculture" is selected to demonstrate the process of literature exploration using Connected Papers. A set of relevant papers is retrieved, out of which the researcher will have to select one of the most appropriate relevant papers. That paper is termed as the origin paper to create the visualization of literature. Connected Papers suggests the most relevant papers based on the search keywords, but the graph is solely based on a researcher's judgement when selecting an origin paper. As explained in the paper, the researcher of other domains may adopt the process to understand the literature mapping phenomena for their own discipline.   https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/istl/index.php/istl/article/view/2760Connected PapersLiterature visualizationDronesAgricultureBibliographic CouplingCitation
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Sanmati Jinendran Jain
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Visual Exploration of Literature Using Connected Papers: A Practical Approach
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Connected Papers
Literature visualization
Drones
Agriculture
Bibliographic Coupling
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title_short Visual Exploration of Literature Using Connected Papers: A Practical Approach
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topic Connected Papers
Literature visualization
Drones
Agriculture
Bibliographic Coupling
Citation
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