This web app aims to help scientists with their literature review using metadata from Microsoft Academic, Crossref and OpenCitations. Academic papers cite one another, thus creating a citation network (= graph). Each node (= vertex) represents an article and each edge (= link / arrow) represents a citation, that is a directed link between two articles. As papers can only cite older papers, in theory the citation network is a directed acyclic graph. Citation graphs are a topic of bibliometrics.
This web app visualizes subsets of the global citation network that I call "local citation networks", defined by citations of a given set of input articles. In addition, the cited references missing in the set of input articles are suggested for further review.
This project is open source (GPL-3). I don't have much more time to work on this project, so I'm actively looking for help and contributors! Bugfixes are always welcome but please contact me before any large pull-requests so we can coordinate. The "docs" folder represents the live version of the project, as that's the folder routed to github.io.
For more details check out the FAQs in the web app!