new notes from references?

[shawngraham]

I like how Intrigue creates the blue notes from an article DOI, etc. I was surprised that in the .intrigue file, when I open it in a text editor, all of the references in that article are there in the underlying json. I don't know whether this happens for all articles, but it could be cool to have the ability to create related notes from this hidden data.

[shaunabanana]

Hi! This is definitely an interesting idea! It would be useful for, say, conducting a literature review. In the future I might be able to add an “explore neighborhood” function to literature nodes. In the mean time, I’ve been making a tool specifically for gathering and filtering papers for a review, so this functionality may come after I finish similar things in that app. Please stay tuned :)

As for the technical details, I think this can be credited to the fact that Citation.js is using CrossRef api, which provides reference data for some papers (but not all). I am looking into combining that api with the Semantic Scholar api to make reference tracing more reliable.

[shaunabanana]

I've just published a prototype for Snowball, a tool for doing literature reviews using the snowballing method. Currently it supports finding related papers using the Semantic Scholar API. Feel free to check it out!