I often find when doing a literature review I end up trying to get an idea of the landscape of a field, it’s cumbersome and tedious but it helps me to understand how things are developing and so on.
It would be great if there was even a rudimentary method of having a papers cited and cited-by section which (in the case of the papers cited could be pasted from the references section, and the cited-by section could be populated by papers creating a match with entries from the cited papers field of other papers)
I understand this is not a simple task and that there is no way to have it happen automatically, but if perhaps the references section was pasted in and there was even a simple parser which could pick up and match doi or other unique (or relatively unique) markers and perhaps have a process where matches would be marked as possible until manually confirmed.
I know this is probably too complex/niche but I thought I would throw the idea out there.