Tomesphere Atlas - Interactive map of 8.5M research papers
Show HN: I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas
Tomesphere Atlas transforms the vast landscape of academic research into a stunning, interactive visual experience. By mapping 8.5 million papers from fields like Computer Science, Physics, and Medicine, it allows users to explore scientific trends through an intuitive point-cloud interface. Users can filter by year, citation count, and specific disciplines to uncover hidden connections and research density. With features like a soft watercolor heatmap and real-time field isolation, this tool turns complex data exploration into an engaging journey, helping researchers and enthusiasts navigate the ever-expanding universe of knowledge with unprecedented clarity.
Where the papers are.
- Jahnavi_Aleti
Jumping between arXiv, GitHub, and peer reviews is such a real pain. The “copy page as markdown for your LLM” feature is especially useful.Curious how accurate the entity linking is so far, genes/diseases/etc. That’s usually where these tools get messy.
- murkt
I remember similar kind of visualization from a decade ago, called paperscape. Looked cool, worked on clustering using citations and references.
Never got any idea on any use case that would be covered by such visualizations, apart from looking cool.
- gavinray
Neat! Two questions I had after using it:
1) Is there a way to filter the visual atlas by the search term? For instance, I searched "ribosome" and it gave me a list, but I couldn't seem to visualize the list
2) I notice there's an MCP tool. I've used https://paperclip.gxl.ai/ in the past to good effect, curious if there are any standout features from tomesphere?