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Oignon: Citation Graph Tool

Harry Ballington

2025 · DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2512.22159
arXiv.org · 0 Citations

TLDR

Oignon is a free, open-source tool for systematically exploring academic research that uses a dual-path ranking system with recency weighting to create graphs capturing both foundational works and recent breakthroughs related to a specific publication.

Abstract

Citation graph visualisation is a useful tool for contextual awareness in academic research. Unfortunately, existing solutions can suffer from several drawbacks, such as a poor scaling, shallow network traversal, freemium gating, and slow build times. Oignon is a free, open-source tool for systematically exploring academic research. It uses a dual-path ranking system with recency weighting to create graphs capturing both foundational works and recent breakthroughs related to a specific publication.