Enrichment of Academic Search Engine Results Pages by Citation-Based Graphs

摘要

Researchers' readings of academic papers make their research more sophisticated and objective. In this paper, we describe a method of supporting scholarly surveys by incorporating a graph based on citation relationships into the results page of an academic search engine. Conventional academic search engines have a problem in that users have difficulty in determining which academic papers are relevant to their needs because it is hard to understand the relationship between the academic papers that appear in the search results pages. Our method helps users to make judgments about the relevance of papers by clearly visualizing the relationship. It visualizes not only academic papers on the results page but also papers that have a strong citation relationship with them. We carefully considered the method of visualization and implemented a prototype with which we conducted a user study simulating scholarly surveys. We confirmed that our method improved the efficiency of scholarly surveys through the user study.