Traversing Citation Networks

Citation explosion happens when manually following references overwhelms you with irrelevant papers. This skill intelligently filters and deduplicates citations using relevance scoring and traversal limits, presenting only the most pertinent related work from Semantic Scholar without information overload.

Forward citation traversal retrieves papers citing your reference by querying Semantic Scholar via DOI. This skill explores forward citations alongside backward references, automatically deduplicating results and scoring them for relevance to your research topic.

Citation graphs map connections between papers using depth-limited BFS traversal. This skill constructs graphs by exploring both citing papers and references, maintaining forward/backward state, filtering by relevance, and preventing duplicate processing to build a curated network efficiently.

Yes. After finding a highly relevant paper, this skill explores its citation network by retrieving key references and papers that cite it from Semantic Scholar, then deduplicates and ranks results by relevance to your research intent.

This skill enforces traversal limits and depth constraints to prevent overwhelming result sets. It uses relevance filtering and deduplication to maintain efficiency, ensuring you explore only focused, high-quality citation paths rather than exhaustive network traversal.