We will let the reader elucidate the other links, which of course are at considerable remove from the actual statements that are being made in the co-citing documents. Here we will simply point out some features of AuthorLink not apparent in Figure 1. This helps the viewer see how big the document sets associated with various retrievals will be. In the latter, the co-cited authors that caused the retrieval are highlighted in blue. We believe that AuthorLink is particularly congenial to humanists' patterns of inquiry.
Humanists tend to center their work on named persons.
AuthorLink, moreover, requires only a single named person as input, rather than complex search strategies. The payoff for a single name is 25 names whose mapped connections are usually intriguing to interpret, allowing one to demonstrate one's cultural literacy in a chosen domain. References Kohonen, Teuvo. Self-Organization and Associative Memory. Rosengren, Karl Erik.