CitationNet makes it easy to visualize the connections among publications over time

Enter a PubMed or OpenAlex ID, then choose a direction. References shows the earlier publications your paper cites. Citations shows the later publications that cite your paper. Both shows them together.

Don’t have an ID to hand? Search by Title looks a paper up by name and drops its ID into the box. Search by Author looks up a researcher — showing each match’s institution, number of papers and citation count, so you can tell apart people with similar names — then fills the box with around twenty of their most-cited papers, mostly ones they led as first or last author.

Single Query Publication ID: CitationNet finds the publications the query publication cites, then the publications those cite in turn.

Multiple Query Publication IDs: CitationNet finds the publications each query publication cites, then highlights every work that two or more of them cite.

Results appear as an interactive graph, stacked by publication year with the newest at the top, next to a table you can sort, filter by keyword, and export. The About page explains how to read the graph.