CitationNet is a platform that makes it easy to visualize the connections between publications over time.

You can search CitationNet by entering a single or multiple PubMed Id(s) into the 'PubMed Id Input' search panel and clicking the ‘Update’ button. You can also set a filter for node degree within the resulting network. The search can be slow for large networks and can take up to a few minutes to complete.


For a single PubMed Id input, CitationNet will return a network of the query publication (purple), the publications cited by the query publication (blue), and the publications cited by those (green). Nodes are then filtered by node degree and the network is displayed over years.

For a multiple PubMed Id input, CitationNet will return a network of the query publication (purple), the publications cited by the query publication (blue). Nodes are then filtered by node degree and the network is displayed over years.

The results are also displayed in a table and the data can be downloaded by clicking the ‘Download’ button.

CitationNet allows you to understand the history of how research publications build upon each other over time. Publications that cite many other publications in the network may be reviews or well cited publications. Publications cited by many other publications in the network may be particularly important.

Citation conections are retrived using NCBI eutils.

Citation networks are visualized using Cytoscape.js and CerebralWeb.

Backgrounds were downloaded from Toptal.

Please Review the Terms of Use before using CitationNet.