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RS Universe

See how your field connects to the rest of research

RS Universe is a 3D map of 31 million papers published from 2024 to 2026. Each point of light is a paper: papers sit with their topic, topics with their field, and fields that cite each other often sit close together.

Papers in the map
31,491,364
Fields and topics
26 and 4,516
Citations between them
159 million
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RS Universe · the whole map
RS Universe zoomed out to its whole map: 26 clusters of coloured points, one per field, on an ivory ground.RS Universe zoomed out to its whole map: 26 clusters of coloured points of light, one per field, on a dark night sky.
Recorded from RS Universe itself. Each colour is a field, and the map names every one. Zoomed out this far it draws a sample of the papers; more appear as you zoom in.

What you can do in RS Universe

  • Explore a topic

    Type a subject and see how it divides into sub-themes, where to start reading and its links to other fields.

  • Open any paper

    The papers most like it, the ones it is linked to by citations, and Where fields meet: its links into other fields.

  • My neighbourhood

    Your saved papers marked in the map, the papers around them, and the nearby groups that hold none of them yet.

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