All Tools

Every analytical tool on Pinakes, with descriptions and direct links.

What Has the Field Published?

Publication Timeline

Article output per year across all 44 journals, filterable by venue.

Institutions

Which universities produce the most scholarship, tracked over time via OpenAlex.

What's New

Articles added to the index in the last seven days, grouped by journal.

How Does the Field Cite?

Citation Network

The global directed citation network: articles as nodes, citations as edges, filterable by journal and year.

Most Cited

Articles ranked by how often they are cited within the index, filterable by journal, topic, and decade.

Citation Trends

Average citations per article by publication year, showing how citation density changes over time.

Journal Citation Flow

Journal-to-journal citation flow as a chord diagram, showing directional intellectual trade between venues.

Half-Life

Citing and cited half-life for each journal: how far back does a journal reach, and how long does its work get cited?

What Belongs Together?

Article Co-Citation

Articles the field treats as intellectually related, based on how often they are cited together.

Author Co-Citation

Scholars the field perceives as intellectually connected, based on co-citation by others.

Bibliographic Coupling

Articles that read the same things: linked by shared references.

Community Detection

Clusters of densely interconnected articles identified by the Louvain algorithm.

Centrality Analysis

Structural importance: which articles are cited by influential work (PageRank) and which bridge separate communities (betweenness).

Main Path Analysis

The backbone of knowledge flow: the single most-traversed chain from the research frontier to foundational works.

Sleeping Beauties

Articles that went years with little citation before experiencing sudden recognition.

Temporal Network Evolution

How the citation network's density, clustering, and modularity have changed over time.

Who Works With Whom?

Co-Authorship Network

Authors who have published together, sized by publication count, linked by shared articles.

Author Profiles

Individual profile pages with publication timeline, co-author network, topic distribution, and co-citation partners.

What Is the Field About?

Topic Co-Occurrence

How often pairs of subject tags appear together, revealing which research threads the field treats as connected.

Reading Path

Given one article, find what to read next: backward citations, forward citations, co-citation neighbors, and coupling neighbors ranked by relevance.