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 # Scholarium
 
-Scholarium allows you to visualize cientific papers and their citations
+Scholarium allows you to visualize scientific 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.
+is fetched in real time from *Scopus* or *Web of Science*.
 
 <sub>This software is in alpha stage. Expect occasional bugs and incomplete features. Suggestions and pull requests are very welcome.</sub>