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citation-network

Build and visualize a citation network from a source/target CSV to identify key papers, communities, and emerging hotspots; use when you have citation pairs and need fast literature review or trend analysis.

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> **Source**: [https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills](https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills)


## When to Use

- You have a citation relationship table (who cites whom) and want to quickly turn it into a directed network for analysis.
- You are conducting a literature review and need to identify influential papers (high in-degree / centrality) and core clusters.
- You want to detect community structures (research subfields) and compare them across time or datasets.
- You need an interactive, shareable visualization (HTML) or a Gephi-importable graph file (GEXF).
- You are positioning a new project and want evidence of research hotspots and bridging papers between communities.

## Key Features

- Builds a directed citation graph from a minimal CSV containing `source` and `target`.
- De-duplicates nodes by identifier (DOI recommended; otherwise unique titles).