Citation Network Visualization
This visualization of the past fifty years of Arabidopsis research displays 54,033 Arabidopsis publications from 1965 through 2015. Clicking on a paper displays links to all the papers that have cited it, and all the papers it has cited.
Thomson Reuters’ Biosis database covering publications from 1800 to March 2015 was searched for papers with Arabidopsis in the title, abstract or keywords. This resulted in a data set of 54,116 papers. Concept codes and bibliographic information were provided as data dumps from Thomson Reuters. A further data set encompassing all 1,830,099 citations of these papers was also provided. The citations were both by papers in the original 54k data set and by papers from outside it. In total, 283,110 papers cited the 54k data set. Structured taxonomic data were available for 275,307 of these papers.
The paper was published in New Phytologist:
Nicholas Provart, Jose Alonso, Sarah Assmann, Dominique Bergmann, Siobhan Brady, Jelena Brkljacic, John Browse, Clint Chapple, Vincent Colot, Sean Cutler, Jeff Dangl, David Ehrhardt, Joanna Friesner, Wolf Frommer, Erich Grotewold, Elliot Meyerowitz, Jennifer Nemhauser, Magnus Nordborg, Craig Pikaard, John Shanklin, Chris Somerville, Shauna Somerville, Mark Stitt, Keiko Torii, Jamie Waese, Doris Wagner, and Peter McCourt. 50 Years of Arabidopsis Research: Highlights and Future Directions. New Phytologist, Octoboer 2015. Tansley Review. DOI: 10.1111/nph.13687
Read the paper here. I made this short video to summarize the project. It was shown at ICAR 2015 in Paris to an audience of 350+ researchers, graduate students, and industry practitioners.