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User Guide
This guide outlines how to use the Citation Tree tool to generate and explore visual maps of academic citations from a specified article's DOI.
Access Citation Tree Website
| a. | Navigate to the website: https://www.citationtree.org/ (Note: No login or account registration is required to use this tool). |
Visualise Academic Citation Trees
| a. | Locate the input field labelled "Enter the DOI of your article of choice below to visualize its scientific reference environment"; |
| b. | Type or paste the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of the article you wish to analyse; |
| c. | Click the Search button to the right of the input field; |
| d. | Wait for the tool to generate the citation tree; |
| e. | Observe the chronological organisation of the citation tree from top (older papers) to bottom (more recent papers). |
Explore Chronology of Citations
| a. | Identify the nodes representing specific academic papers in the citation map (Note: The colour and position of the nodes indicate their relationship to the initial article: darker nodes represent a closer citation relation); |
| b. | Right-click on a citation node to explore a specific paper; |
| c. | Select Open link in new tab from the context menu to navigate to the original publication's webpage; |
| d. | Scroll down to locate the export options at the bottom left of the visualisation; |
| e. | Click the Export as SVG button to save the tree as a scalable vector graphic image; |
| f. | Click the Export as RIS button to download the citation data in a format compatible with most reference management software; |
| g. | Click the Export as BibTeX button to download the data in the BibTeX format. |
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