Systems and methods for graphically representing research relationships

A system for graphically representing a research relationship, the system comprising:

• a communications device communicably coupled to a plurality of databases, which store publications, and a user device;
• a processing circuit including a processor and memory, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
• receive, from the user device, a search input for a target entity;
• retrieve, via the communications device from the plurality of databases, a plurality of publications which are associated with the target entity, wherein at least some of the plurality of publications were contributed to by associated entities;
• determine a number of publications for the target entity;
• determine a number of publications for each of the associated entities;
• and
• generate a graphical user interface which represents a research relationship between the target entity and each of the associated entities, wherein generating the graphical user interface comprises:
• representing the target entity as a target object and each of the associated entities as associated objects within a mesh, wherein each of the target object and associated objects have a size which corresponds to the number of publications;
• and
• generating one or more connectors which connect the target object for the target entity to the associated objects for the associated entities, wherein the connectors represent joint contribution to one or more of the plurality of publications by the target entity and a respective associated entity, and wherein each associated object is located a distance from the target object in the mesh which corresponds to the number of publications jointly contributed to by the respective associated entity and the target entity.