- The browser surfaces question candidates from nearby topics and papers.
- Each question stays tied to intermediate topics and starter papers.
- One short route helps explain why a question is worth inspecting.
Organizing open questions in economics.
Browse question candidates suggested by short routes through nearby topics and papers.
The working paper sets out the method and benchmark results behind FrontierGraph.
As it gets easier to produce more analysis, choosing where to look next matters more.
Public release
242,595
papers screened 242,595 papers from 1976 to 2026 screened from the journal corpus before building the public release.
300 journals
journals covered Top 150 core economics journals plus Top 150 adjacent journals used to build the release.
1,443,407
topic links 1,443,407 topic-to-topic links extracted from titles and abstracts and then used to build the map.
92,663
suggested questions Question suggestions generated from missing direct links that already have nearby supporting paths or starter papers.
How to read the map
Start with one short path.
Start with one nearby chain of topics. It shows how one topic already leads into another in the surrounding literature and gives you a concrete way to read the map.
- Circles are topics.
- Arrows show one topic leading into another in nearby papers.
- One short path is often enough to see the mechanism linking two sides of a question.