Steps:
1. Visit connectedpapers.com
2. Enter the paper title or DOI in the search box
   For example: "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers"
3. Click on the target paper
4. Click "Build a graph"
5. Wait about 30 seconds for the graph to be generated

Interpretation of the chart:
- Node size: number of references (the larger, the more important)
- Node color: publication year (the darker the color, the newer it is)
- Thickness of the connection: similarity (the thicker, the more relevant)
- Central node: the paper of your choice

Connected Papers divides relevant papers into two categories:




Prior Works:


- Publish before the target paper


- is the basis for the target paper


- Help understand research background




Derivative Works:


- Publish after the target paper


- Work based on the target paper


- Help keep up to date with the latest developments




You can switch between these two types of papers in the right panel of the map.

Best practices:




1. First find the latest review paper (Survey) in the field


2. Use review papers to generate maps


3. Review papers usually cite all important work in the field


4. The largest node in the graph is the most important paper




Tips for searching for review papers:


Search on Google Scholar:


"survey [your topic] 2024"


or


"review [your topic] 2024"