To follow the convention of popular applications, reorder the menu items to:

New...
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currently, right-clicking empty space (that’s not a node) causes a pop up menu to show. The popup menu should * not * shows because it should only show when at least 1 node is selected

Problem : only add 10 citations based on relevance, 10 citations based on importance, etc, due to the page and pagesize parameters of the api call being fixed to 1 and 10.
Possible Solution: have multiple fetches and store the results in a promise

For paper nodes with 10000 or more citations, the citationCount is displayed as 9999.

Currently, when adding 5 citations/references for a paper node, those 5 (new) papers are determined by the order (unclear by what measures) determined by semantic scholar's API.

A better way to add the 5 papers would be to first sort all the citations/references by relevance (determined by SS), citation count, etc. Then, add the first 5 papers (that's not already shown in the visualization).

For each paper node, also retrieve and save its CorpusID (as property and value).

In Argo Scholar, we need a way for users to “link back” to Semantic Scholar (from a paper node in Argo Scholar).

• For example, one design could be that when the corpus ID 3442097 is rendered as an URL (e.g., in the node details panel) and when clicked it will launch the following link in a new browser tab/window
• https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:3442097

right-click empty space to deselect any nodes that may be have been selected. Then left-click a node, and then right click; the menu that shows up will not have “Argo Scholar” menu items

Our current way of displaying paper name/abstract as properties of a node is unintuitive and hard to read. We should make it easier for users to view and copy these texts.

Improve usability and readability of node size legend (that’s another thing we didn’t get to improve), so something similar to (no need to be identical): http://friendlycities.gatech.edu/data-interactive/

Currently, the link opens in the same window of argo scholar, potentially overwriting user's current work/visualization

The node labels for newly-added paper nodes are not shown (even though global setting was to show all node labels).

Currently, when user mouse-over a node, all opacity of other nodes (that aren't mouse-overed) is reduced, allowing the edges behind them to show throw and can look visually overwhelming.
Possible solution is to increase color lightness (e.g., by first getting the HSL color space representation of a node's color, and then increasing the "L" value). See attached image for how example lighter node colors.

Add a search bar that opens the current add paper menu

Are there ways to add multiple corpus ID at the same time?

How is “Show 5 neighbors with highest pagerank” different or related to “Add 5 Paper Citations/References”? E.g., is there a dependency (e.g., need to first add 5 citations/references before users can get 5 neighbors with highest pagerank?)?

This list is intended to be an archive of some UI issues on the Argo Scholar web app. Updates and fixes will be added regularly.

List of Issues

1. Dark mode color scheme is inconsistent in certain dialogs. (Dark mode disabled)

2. Selecting text is disabled in certain input boxes, e.g. the one in RenameSnapshot. (Might be a bug of blueprint.js)

3. Add graph by csv/gexf still exists in the graph menu even when they are no longer supported by Argo Scholar. (Solved in 39164a3)

4. The "done" button is still clickable when it has the CSS property of "disabled". (Solved in 2931054)

5. The automatic file download function is not implemented but the text states that

   If your browser doesn't start downloading the file, you can manually copy the content below and save to a plain text file.

6. Graph Options card's width changes when scroll bar appears. (Solved in a2333e3)

The tool prompts incorrect Corpus ID sometimes even when the ID is correct.
To recreate this:

1. Entering the tool with the default graph and submit a Corpus ID (221296584 Argo-Lite for example).
2. The tool notifies you that the Corpus ID is incorrect and tells you to try again.
3. Create empty graph
4. Add the same ID and it works this time.
   

ArgoScholar looks extremely promising to manage paper citations. However, for this, I would like to keep the citation graph as part of the overall paper repository, so I need to export it.
Currently, when pressing "Save Snapshot" a hint comes with "If your browser doesn't start downloading the file, you can manually copy the content below and save to a plain text file.". While the copying works, it requires more work than a plain download would cost. The hint suggests, that at least some browsers open a download dialog but I did not find any (I tried Firefox, Chromium, Qutebrowser).
Does this open a download dialog somewhere?

Also, do you know of some possibility to make the whole opening/edit/saving process more comfortable? Ideally, I would like to have the citation file laying together with the remaining files directly in the paper repository for which I need the citations. Ideally, I would open the file, edit the file visually and "just safe it" (or even have an autosave feature). Even with the possibility to download the file directly, the browser directly is not really helpful in opening and saving local files.
When saving the graph as a persistent link on the server. Is there a possibility to get the raw string easily with a script?

Polo: Oh, I just saw that googling “argo scholar” would show the result of tool/site with little description — see attached images from Google and Bing. Could you help improve it so the description is more informative, and importantly show up in search results (e.g., by taking hints from Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, Connected Papers, etc.)?

Improve usability and readability of color legend (we thought about doing this for a long time, but didn’t get to do it) to something similar to (doesn’t need to be identical of course) http://friendlycities.gatech.edu/data-interactive/ . If there are existing libraries we can just, there’s no need to reinvent; just use it

ArgoScholar is a really nice tool to explore the personal network for an own paper.
However, often one want to leave some personal notes to a specific citation (after reading it, for example to leave some comments how exactly it fits to your own paper).

It would be really nice, if those notes can be added as part of the window at the right side with the details of the citation.
Maybe it could be even more generic and one can add arbitrary key, value pairs. With this, for example a bibtex key can be added to connect ArgoScholar with preexisting bibtex files etc. or adds the ability to integrate ArgoScholar in some preexisting tooling for citation searches.

Currently, edge arrows are quite small and are hard to see.

Also, since arrows pointing both directions are both placed in the middle of edges, it's not easy for users to quickly identify an edge's direction.

To reproduce:

• Add the first paper node (e.g., corpus ID 3442097).
  • Try dragging that node (not selected but not pinned by default), it’ll fly off the screen
• Right click on a paper node and click, say, add 5 references.
  • Wait for the 5 new nodes to be added and selected (by default).
  • Try dragging the 5 selected nodes, and they’ll fly off the screen

Steps to reproduce:

1. create empty graph, then add the paper node with corpusID 4891043 (or other corpusID)

2. right click paper node and click "add 5 paper citations" (and the error message pop up once for each citation)

How to add more than 5 citations or references for a paper node in Argo Scholar? And why limit to 5?

When zooming in and out, animate the transition, to remove sudden movements (which disrupts people’s visual context). Relevant examples (found via googling “d3 zoom animate”):
https://observablehq.com/@d3/programmatic-zoom
https://observablehq.com/@d3/smooth-zooming

Symptom: when pressing left arrow key (or other arrow key)) on keyboard in search box, the graph also pans left.

Possible reason: the graph “view”currently supports panning by arrow keys.

Possible fix: the simplest fix could be to have the keyboard presses (KeyPressed events?) be “consumed” by the search box (thus will no longer propagate to graph view)

Unpinning node doesn't work when any node is clicked immediately after clicking the unpin button. The background has to be clicked for the node to be unpinned.

Sharing an Argo Scholar snapshot should create an URL with the prefix that starts with https://poloclub.github.io/argo-scholar/...

Create a "New..." option under "Graph" which acts as "Clear all papers." Also create a popup that informs user of this action.