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Oignon: Citation Graph Tool

Digital Libraries 2025-12-30 v1

Abstract

Citation graph visualisation is a useful tool for contextual awareness in academic research. Unfortunately, existing solutions can suffer from several drawbacks, such as a poor scaling, shallow network traversal, freemium gating, and slow build times. Oignon is a free, open-source tool for systematically exploring academic research. It uses a dual-path ranking system with recency weighting to create graphs capturing both foundational works and recent breakthroughs related to a specific publication.

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@article{arxiv.2512.22159,
  title  = {Oignon: Citation Graph Tool},
  author = {Harry Ballington},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.22159},
  year   = {2025}
}

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3 pages, 1 figure

R2 v1 2026-07-01T08:41:48.868Z