Patent ID: 6728725
Filing Date: 2004-04-27
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
An automated process for operating a computer system to create an historiograph of bibliographic information for publications, comprising the steps:processing bibliographic information for one or more seed publications through at least one source database, said at least one source database being one of: a publication citation index database, a full text database, an abstract database; said processing comprising identification of publications citing to, and cited by, said one or more seed publications; processing the identified publications through said at least one source database for identification of further publications citing to, and cited by, said identified publications in successive iterations until all identified publications have been processed; assigning node identifying designations to qualifying publications according to predetermined criteria; compiling a citation network comprising identified node publications, said citation network linking to each node publication the designations of other node publications citing to, and cited by, said each node publication; displaying said citation network of node publications on a display device in an organized graphical form showing the relationship of each node publication to the other node publications in said citation network.