Start a new web
Create a fresh collaborator list, set a depth, and build the network when you are ready.
Scholarly Co-Author Network
Create saved collaboration webs, search authors with identifying details, and inspect a full-width co-author graph with node and edge evidence.
OpenAlex public API
Saved locally in your browser
Node + edge inspection
View saved webs
Open an existing web to edit collaborators, rebuild the graph, or inspect the latest saved network.
Current web
Untitled web
No collaborators added yet.
Find and add authors
Search OpenAlex and pick the right person using institution, citation count, ORCID, and work totals.
Search for an author to start building your collaborator list.
Your collaborators
These people act as the N0 layer for your web. Remove anyone here before rebuilding if needed.
Build network
Choose the network depth and generate the graph from your saved collaborator list.
Add at least one collaborator, then build the network.
Network graph
Each hop layer uses a different colour. Click a node or edge to inspect how the connection is formed.
Find an author path
Search for a target author, choose which of your saved collaborators to start from, and search the live OpenAlex coauthorship graph on demand.
Search for a target author to start a live OpenAlex path search.
Starting authors
Tick the collaborators that are allowed to act as the start of the path.
Search progress
Track frontiers, expansions, cache usage, and the best partial bridge found so far.
Shortest path graph
The graph below isolates the best live path currently found from your selected seed authors to the chosen target author.
Pick a target author to see the path summary and its step-by-step evidence.
Alternate paths
When available, additional high-quality candidate paths appear here after the main result.