About Academic Descent
Academic Descent is a tool for exploring academic paper citation networks.
Click on any citation to explore deeper into the network.
How to use:
- Search for a paper by entering its title in the search box
- Click on any node to view paper details and expand its citations
- Pan by dragging the graph, zoom with your mouse wheel
- Click a node again to collapse its citations
- Papers are ordered left-to-right by publication date (oldest to newest)
Node colors:
- ● Blue - Root paper you searched for
- ● Light blue - Papers with citations to explore
- ● Lighter blue - Duplicate papers (appearing multiple times)
- ● Gray - Leaf nodes (no citations available)
Data source: All paper data comes from OpenAlex,
a free and open catalog of the world's scholarly research.