Here you can see the full list of changes between each release.
Released on June 29, 2023
- All search results are saved permanently
- Use different sparse graphs for embeddings and visualization
- Use kNN induced graph to create sparse graph
- Tweaked analysis parameters for better clusters extraction
- Updated libraries
Released on May 10, 2023
- Cleanup tasks cache - removed lru_ttl_cache_with_callback
- Don't use fasttext model, it requires lots of memory without significant improvements
- Docker base image updated to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Released on Aug 23, 2022
- Updated Semantic Scholar database to version 2022-05-01
- Reworked Semantic Scholar database structure and indexes for faster loading and updates
- Added size selector in network view - size encodes number of citations or centrality of the paper
- Don't show feedback message form for predefined examples
- Small bugfixes in numbers extracting functionality
- Better tests on Kotlin-based database uploading and Python-based analysis
- Updated libraries versions to support MacBook aarch64 architecture
Released on Jan 25, 2022
- Updated PubMed database to the version 2022
- Updated pubtrends.net config to use nginx
- Improved single paper analysis - pay more attention to paper own keywords/citations while expanding by references
- Show papers graph for single-paper analysis
- Fixed issues with missing references for fresh papers
Released on Nov 18, 2021
- Use pretrained fasttext model by Facebook for words embeddings
- Reworked text preprocessing - don't ignore non-ascii characters
- Optimize memory consumption for workers
Released on Oct 10, 2021
- Use combined text and graph embeddings for papers analysis
- Get rid of citations graph visualization
- Disabled zoom out functionality, reworked execution
- Fixed review generation functionality
- Reduced default font size
- Various other bugfixes
Released on Oct 5, 2021
- Support Pubmed search syntax including AND, OR, etc.
- Show analysis results as downloadable html files
- Reworked single paper analysis with single background task
- Small fixes
Released on Aug 10, 2021
- Improved topics descriptions based on cosine similarities
- Use similarity and clustering parameters according to the nature reviews benchmark, see https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3459930.3469501
- Papers filtering in graph representation based on specific fields
- Show topics centers and tags in interactive viewer
- Small updates and bugfixes
Released on May 24, 2021
- Use graph embeddings for detecting similar papers
- Improved papers graph visualization in tSNE coordinates of embeddings
- Identify groups of similar authors
- Small updates and bugfixes
Released on April 9, 2021
- Removed Neo4j DB backend
Released on April 7, 2021
- Reworked results page
- Show joint topics and keyword diagram
- Bugfixes
Released on March 28, 2021
- Analyze list of papers
- Improved papers search - combine pharases with terms search
- Bugfixes
Released on March 1, 2021
- Improved graph visualization - highlight nodes according to filter string on the fly
- Improved topics description - avoid similar terms in topics descriptions
- Modified similarity between papers - use log for bibcoupling and co-citations to make all features the same magnitude
Released on February 12, 2021
- Model from the paper Automatic generation of reviews of scientific papers is deployed.
It collects a set of sentences from top cited papers abstracts with the highest probability to be included in a real review - Feedback frontend code cleanup
- Export results
- Configure additional features from config file
Released on November 22, 2020
- Redesign of main page
- Add dedicated on-site webpage with example search description
- HTTPS supported
- Add Google Analytics code during building
- robots.txt and sitemap.xml
Released on October 22, 2020
- Support for feedback collecting
- Changed expand logic: keep total citation count the same magnitude
- Small Bugfixes
Released on September 24, 2020
- Extract numbers from texts of abstracts
- Small Bugfixes
Released on September 1, 2020
- Reworked DB backends (default is postgres)
- Optimized most cited search for postgres
- Support MESH terms and keywords for Pubmed
- Expand queries when small number of papers can be found by direct search
- Show keywords and MESH terms in paper info
- Bugfixes and improvements
Released on August 8, 2020
- Reworked topics extraction based on the smallest communities of Louvain algorithm
- Removed limitation of 20 topics
- Show highly similar papers between topics in structure graph
- Bugfixes
Released on May 3, 2020
- Export to csv functionality for papers list
- Reworked logging and configuration files lookup
- Initial user management
- Admin interface with visits, searches statistics and requests word cloud
Released on April 27, 2020
- Search by DOI supported
- Show DOI information for single and multiple papers
- Fixes in papers expand
Released on Mar 20, 2020
- Introduced cytoscape based views for citations / structure graphs
- Hybrid citations based: citations based, co-citations and bibliographic coupling.
- Use TF-IDF for topics description
Released on January 9, 2020
- Switched to Neo4j instead of PostgreSQL
Released on July 25, 2019
- Docker-compose deployment
- Semantic Scholar and Pubmed supported
- Initial release