Is there any software / website that will visualize an academic paper and its "children", and their "children", etc. as a tree-like structure (up to depth of x...)?<p>This would be remarkably helpful in learning a bit more about a niche topic.
Do you mean visualising the tree by citations? All of these help, but papercube has a good following.<p><a href="http://flowingdata.com/2012/01/01/visualizing-citations-in-research-literature/" rel="nofollow">http://flowingdata.com/2012/01/01/visualizing-citations-in-r...</a><p><a href="http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/10058/visualization-of-citation-data" rel="nofollow">http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/10058/visualizati...</a><p><a href="http://papercube.peterbergstrom.com/" rel="nofollow">http://papercube.peterbergstrom.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ase/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ase/</a>