Literature Finder
A free, open-source command-line toolkit for large-scale search and fast
retrieval of scientific papers. It is built on the Semantic Scholar
API, and every run returns the full metadata behind each paper: structured JSON, a
ready-to-import .bib file for your reference manager, and a readable summary.
- Seed-based discovery: give it 2 to 5 papers you already like and get ranked recommendations.
- Paper neighborhood: pull every reference and citing paper one hop from a seed, deduplicated and tagged.
- Author network: map co-authorship links and surface research communities.
- Trend tracker: count publications across a year range and see where a topic is growing.
- Citation context: see how and why a paper is actually cited by others.
- Journal lister: retrieve every paper from a venue, filtered by keyword, year, or citations.
Example: a publication-trend summary produced by the tool
Gap Finder / Trend Tracker: deferred acceptance school choice Year range: 2019-2025 Total papers: 451 PUBLICATION TREND ------------------------------------------------------------ 2019 | ################## | 41 2020 | ##################### | 47 (+14.6%) 2021 | ########################## | 58 (+23.4%) 2022 | ############################## | 66 (+13.8%) 2023 | ################################### | 79 (+19.7%) 2024 | ######################################## | 88 (+11.4%) 2025 | ################################ | 72 (-18.2%) SUB-TOPIC TRENDS ------------------------------------------------------------ Economics [ growing] 28 33 39 45 52 61 49 Computer Science [ growing] 9 11 14 17 22 24 19 Education [ stable] 4 3 5 4 5 3 4
Clone the repo and run python main.py to choose a routine from the menu. A Semantic Scholar API key is optional and only raises your rate limit.