Site experiment · first seen May 30, 2026

Scholar Lens

A small evidence panel beside the publication list. It filters papers by authorship and format, connects annual citation bars to the papers behind them, and keeps every count tied to a dated Google Scholar snapshot.

Dated citation evidence Authorship and format Bidirectional highlight List stays authoritative
Question

How can citation context help someone navigate the papers without turning the page into a ranking dashboard?

Interaction

Hover, focus, or filter one view and the corresponding paper, year share, and totals answer together.

Boundary

The bibliography owns publication facts; the lens owns a volatile, dated citation overlay.

Origin

My friend Howard recommended the Google Scholar Author Highlighter. Its useful lesson was contextual emphasis: make one author’s contribution easier to follow without hiding the surrounding record. The site adapts that principle into its own publication filters and annual citation view.

  1. 089b29413Added the site-native lens, per-paper citation data, annual bars, filters, and publication-list synchronization.
  2. c568345d1Improved hover and focus so annual contribution, citation chip, and paper entry read as one evidence path.
  3. beeb11fb2Updated citation highlights while preserving the bibliography as the canonical accepted-paper list.