The Global Research Space - A free topographic map of the latest 10M+ research papers

Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I'm the Maker of The Global Research Space.

There is so much amazing research being done globally, but the sheer volume of output makes it difficult to comprehend trends. I built TGRS to help navigate the vast scientific landscape as a spatial exploration instead of parsing lists of PDFs!

What is it?
- 🗺️ The Interactive Map: We currently hold 10M+ papers, with over 400k added every month.
- 🎯 Prompt Radars[beta]: Set up a custom Radar to monitor for new research. The system will notify you the second new papers meet your exact specifications.
- 📊 Search and Analytics: We support both semantic and keyword search, which highlights relevant regions on the map, as well as analytics combinations such as ranking: "Top authors from ___ University, published to ___ Journal, relating to Proteomics."

Some Specs?
- Sourced the latest 10M papers from OpenAlex.
- Generated embeddings using SPECTER 2 on titles and abstracts.
- Reduced dimensionality with UMAP, then applied Voronoi partitioning on density peaks to create distinct semantic neighborhoods.
- The floating topic labels are generated via custom labeling algorithms (definitely still a work in progress!).

The core map is 100% free to explore with zero login required (you only need an account if you want to save custom Radars).

I am also happy to share that our recent soft launches on Reddit went better than expected, landing as the #1 post in r/MachineLearning and r/SideProject, and currently standing at #3 in r/dataisbeautiful—all with the servers holding strong under nearly a thousand concurrent users! I thought the natural next step was to share it with the PH community.

I would really deeply appreciate any feedback and suggestions!

Happy to answer any questions!