Ask HN: What about representing academic papers on graphs?
I have an idea which is representing each academic paper on a graph based on their references lists. Each vertex will be the paper representation(paper itself) and the edges will be the references pointed from/to the related paper. It seems to be a decent UI representation for papers. Is that a novel idea or implemented/thought before? How would it be useful for discover related papers when reading a specific one? I am asking for the HN people's invaluable comments about this thought.