Connected Papers generates a visual graph showing how academic papers connect to each other through citations and semantic similarity. Start from one paper, and the tool maps an interactive web of related work - prior papers that influenced it, derivative work building on it, and parallel work in adjacent fields. The visual representation makes it fast to identify the intellectual lineage of a field, find foundational papers you might have missed, and spot emerging research clusters. The 'Prior Works' and 'Derivative Works' views organize the graph chronologically for systematic literature review. For researchers entering a new field or conducting literature reviews, Connected Papers reduces the time to understand the structure of a body of work from weeks of bibliography-chasing to hours of visual exploration.