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+# Scholarium
+
+Scholarium allows you to visualize cientific papers and their citations
+graphically, as a network, making it easy to get a big picture of a research
+field, identify clusters of closely related articles and find important papers
+to read.
+
+Each node of the network corresponds to a paper and each link corresponds to a
+citation. Papers with many citations are represented as large nodes. The data
+is fetched in real time from Scopus or Web of Science.
+
+*This software is currently in alpha stage.*
+
+## Screenshots
+
+<a href="http://i.imgur.com/rMa90Be.png"><img style="border: 1px solid #ccc;
+padding: 2px" src="http://i.imgur.com/rMa90Bem.png" title="source: imgur.com"
+/></a>