Scientific papers are incredibly difficult to read if you’re not someone who’s already an expert in the field. It’s even worse when that paper leaves out a lot of details and background information by citing other papers.
A collegue and I where looking for papers on computer vision when we ran into this problem. So we asked,
Wouldn’t it be cool to have a visualization of all scientific papers and automatically linked the references and citations to other papers?
It looks like Peter Bergstorm asked the same question, so he started his masters thesis with the aim to solve that problem by inventing papercube.
Looks like it currently only searches papers up to the year 2004, but it’s looking very snappy so far.
