Argo Scholar: Interactive Visual Exploration of Literature in Browsers

TL;DR

Argo Scholar is an open-source, web-based visualization tool that enables interactive, personalized exploration of nearly 200 million research papers from Semantic Scholar, facilitating easier discovery and sharing of scientific literature.

Contribution

It introduces a real-time, interactive visualization platform for literature exploration that supports personalized queries and easy sharing, addressing limitations of previous tools.

Findings

Supports real-time exploration of 200 million papers

Enables sharing of exploration results via URL or embedded IFrame

Open-source and accessible for researchers worldwide

Abstract

Discovering and making sense of relevant research literature is fundamental to becoming knowledgeable in any scientific discipline. Visualization can aid this process; however, existing tools' adoption and impact have often been constrained, such as by their reliance on small curated paper datasets that quickly become outdated or a lack of support for personalized exploration. We introduce Argo Scholar, an open-source, web-based visualization tool for interactive exploration of literature and easy sharing of exploration results. Argo Scholar queries and visualizes Semantic Scholar's live data of almost 200 million papers, enabling users to generate personalized literature exploration results in real-time through flexible, incremental exploration, a common and effective method for researchers to discover relevant work. Our tool allows users to easily share their literature exploration results as a URL or web-embedded IFrame application. Argo Scholar is open-sourced and available at https://poloclub.github.io/argo-scholar/.