PUREsuggest – Citation-based literature search

PUREsuggest is a scientific literature search tool that, starting from some seed papers, suggests scientific publications through citations/references.

The tool is available at: https://fabian-beck.github.io/pure-suggest/

Key features

• Select multiple publications and get suggestions based on citations of these
• Inspect the suggestions ranked by a citation score
• Boost the score with specific keywords of interest
• Visualize citations in a network diagram on a cluster map or timeline

Additional functionality

• Add publications to selection by DOIs or search
• View the main authors of the selected publications
• Filter suggestions by different criteria
• Automatic tagging of publication characteristics (e.g., highly cited)
• Quick access to publications through links (DOIs, open access versions, or Google Scholar)
• Keyboard controls for an efficient workflow
• Export/import search session
• Export selected publications to BibTeX
• Responsive design that supports screen sizes from phone up to ultra-wide displays

Read more

Blog

We publish news as part of our blog on Medium.com: https://medium.com/@pure_suggest

Scientific publications

If you want to learn more on the background of the tool or cite it, you can refer to the following publication:

• [Main Publication] Beck, F., 2024 (Early Access). PUREsuggest: Citation-based Literature Search and Visual Exploration with Keyword-controlled Rankings. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics: DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3456199. [PDF]
• Rabsahl, S. and Beck, F., 2024. A Multi-layer Event Visualization for Exploring User Search Patterns in Literature Discovery with PUREsuggest. In Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2024. DOI: 10.1145/3670653.3677502
• Beck, F., 2022. Assessing Discussions of Related Work through Citation-based Recommendations and Network Visualization. In Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2022. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7123500.
• Beck, F. and Krause, C., 2022. Visually Explaining Publication Ranks in Citation-based Literature Search with PURE suggest. In EuroVis 2022 - Posters. DOI: 10.2312/evp.20221110. [PDF]

Project setup

npm install

Compiles and hot-reloads for development

npm run dev

Compiles and minifies for production

npm run build