Ref-vision

This project is written with reactjs frontend and flask backend.

This project aims to provide high level overview of how references are connected with each other in any given paper. The backend consumes the crossref api and builds the reference graph to provide services of ref-vision api that is rendered by the frontend using reactjs.

To run and test the program locally:

1. Clone this repository.
2. First install the python requirements from the requirements.txt.
3. Go inside the api directory and run the flask api using flask run. This should be running on localhost port 5000.
4. Then, in the parent directory, run the reactjs frontend using yarn start. This should run on localhost port 3000.
5. You can run the app by visiting localhost:3000 in your browser.

Known Issues

1. As the flask api gets its data from crossref's api, only papers that have their references registered with crossref can be visualized as graph.
2. Currently, the graph is drawn to only single depth.