All tools
Each of these twenty tools asks a different question of the same corpus: 54,261 articles across the journals in the capsa.
What has the field published?
Publication volume, institutional output, and the current week's scholarship.
How does the field cite?
Citation patterns, flows between journals, and how citation density changes over time.
The global directed citation network: articles as nodes, citations as edges, filterable by journal and year.
Most CitedArticles ranked by how often they are cited within the index, filterable by journal, topic, and decade.
Citation TrendsAverage citations per article by publication year: how citation density changes over time.
Journal Citation FlowJournal-to-journal citation flow as a chord diagram: directional intellectual trade between venues.
Half-LifeCiting and cited half-life for each journal: how far back does a journal reach, and how long does its work get cited?
What belongs together?
Which works the field treats as related, which communities form, and how knowledge flows through time.
Articles the field treats as intellectually related, based on how often they are cited together.
Author Co-CitationScholars the field perceives as intellectually connected, based on co-citation by others.
Bibliographic CouplingArticles that read the same things: linked by shared references.
Community DetectionClusters of densely interconnected articles identified by the Louvain algorithm.
Centrality AnalysisStructural importance: which articles are cited by influential work (PageRank) and which bridge separate communities (betweenness).
Main Path AnalysisThe backbone of knowledge flow: the single most-traversed chain from the research frontier to foundational works.
Sleeping BeautiesArticles that went years with little citation before experiencing sudden recognition.
Temporal Network EvolutionHow the citation network's density, clustering, and modularity have changed over time.
Who works with whom?
Collaborative relationships and individual scholarly profiles.
What is the field about?
Topic patterns, thematic connections, and how to find related reading.