How does Paper Flow find research papers?

The skill queries the Semantic Scholar and arXiv APIs to retrieve papers based on your specific search terms, DOI, or paper titles.

How does it handle large citation networks?

It applies hierarchical layout algorithms like Reingold-Tilford to organize nodes and implements rate limiting to stay within API quotas.

What visualization formats are supported?

Paper Flow generates .excalidraw files for hand-drawn style diagrams and .canvas files for native Obsidian graph visualization.

Does this skill require an Obsidian installation?

While the skill generates files optimized for Obsidian, the Markdown notes and Excalidraw files can be used in any compatible editor.

Paper Flow Research Visualization

Name: Paper Flow Research Visualization
Author: devkade

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Learning & Documentation

Generates interactive academic citation trees and organized Obsidian research vaults from paper metadata.

About

Paper Flow is a specialized research tool designed to map the development of academic fields through automated citation network analysis. By interfacing with Semantic Scholar and arXiv APIs, it discovers influential papers, extracts bidirectional citation data, and builds structured visualizations including Excalidraw diagrams and Obsidian Canvas files. This skill simplifies the literature review process by transforming complex academic relationships into navigable knowledge graphs, complete with individual markdown notes for every paper identified in the workflow.

Key Features

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Automatic markdown note creation with metadata, abstracts, and DOI links
Generation of interactive Excalidraw and Obsidian Canvas files
Advanced tree layout algorithms for clean hierarchical visualizations
Bidirectional citation network extraction for forward and backward references
Automated paper discovery via Semantic Scholar and arXiv APIs

Use Cases

Visualizing the evolution and influence flow of a specific research topic
Building a citation tree from a single seed paper DOI to find descendants
Generating an organized Obsidian vault structure for a new literature review

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Key Features

0 GitHub stars
Automatic markdown note creation with metadata, abstracts, and DOI links
Generation of interactive Excalidraw and Obsidian Canvas files
Advanced tree layout algorithms for clean hierarchical visualizations
Bidirectional citation network extraction for forward and backward references
Automated paper discovery via Semantic Scholar and arXiv APIs

Use Cases

Visualizing the evolution and influence flow of a specific research topic
Building a citation tree from a single seed paper DOI to find descendants
Generating an organized Obsidian vault structure for a new literature review