BookGraph

Exploring Citation Networks
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Visualizing Literary Citation Networks

Explore how authors reference each other across time. Each circle represents an author, containing their books. Red circles are source texts being analyzed; blue circles are cited works. The vertical axis represents time, from ancient texts at the bottom to modern works at the top. Select a library above to begin exploring.

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    Cited Works

      Book

      BookGraph Explorer

      An interactive citation network showing how books reference each other across centuries.

      Controls

      • Scroll or pinch to zoom, drag to pan
      • Click a red circle to explore its citations
      • Click a blue circle for book details

      Book Shelf

      The cover images above are the source books from the library — click any cover to focus on its citation network.

      Data Sources

      Citations are AI-extracted from source texts and matched against Goodreads. Author metadata comes from Wikipedia.