The SAGE system helps researchers navigate through the space of academic works, allowing them to quickly find closely related works and locate important similar papers with ease. This is accomplished by visualizing the set of academic papers as a directed graph. Each paper is a node, with an edge to another if the first references the second. This formulation allows us to intuitively estimate importance using an heuristic of reference count - an important paper tends to be referenced many more times than less important papers.
SAGE allows us to navigate around this graph, presenting the vital metrics of importance
and relevance in a user-friendly manner. For any user, whether student,
academic, professional, or layperson, SAGE facilitates rapid discovery of
important information in potentially unfamiliar fields.
Microsoft Academic Search API Application
Project Design Document
Project Timeline