# CitationMap — Full Text Feed > **Website**: https://citationmap.com > **Last-Modified**: 2026-10-25 > **Description**: A web tool that maps which countries and institutions cite a researcher's Google Scholar papers. Viewing a map is free; exports are a one-time purchase. > **Maintainer**: Tom An (Anureka Inc.), contact: tom@anureka.com This file is the full-text companion to `/llms.txt`: the body text of the site's FAQ, pricing and methodology pages in one fetch. It is maintained by hand; the pages themselves are the primary source. --- ## What CitationMap is CitationMap (citationmap.com) is a hosted web application. You enter a researcher's name or Google Scholar profile URL, and it builds an interactive world map of the institutions and countries that cite that researcher's papers, with per-country and per-institution counts. It is not the open-source `citation-map` Python package on GitHub/PyPI. That package runs locally and needs Python; CitationMap runs in the browser and needs no code. Data source: Google Scholar. CitationMap crawls a scholar's publications and the papers citing them, then resolves each citing author's affiliation to an institution and a location. Primary uses: * **Visa petitions** — evidence of international acclaim and original contributions for O-1A, EB-1A, EB-1B and EB-2 NIW petitions. * **Grant applications, tenure and promotion** — a visual record of international research impact. * **Personal sites and CVs** — an embeddable interactive map. * **Collaboration discovery** — institutions and countries already citing your work. ## Pricing * Viewing a citation map is free, with no signup. * Exports (poster, high-resolution PNG, CSV) are a one-time purchase per scholar: $0.01 per citation on the scholar's Google Scholar profile, with a $4.99 minimum and a $39.98 cap. There is no subscription. * Exports of featured scholars' maps (Geoffrey Hinton, Kaiming He and others listed in `/llms.txt`) are free. * Scholars not yet in CitationMap with fewer than 100 citations are crawled automatically for free; larger new profiles are crawled after purchase. Details: https://citationmap.com/pricing ## Key statistics * CitationMap has traced 1.14 million citation edges across 231 countries (CitationMap Citation Geography Report, 2026: https://citationmap.com/guides/citation-geography-report). * On a profile page, the map states how many of the scholar's citations have been crawled so far ("N of M citations"). Large profiles are filled in over time, so country and institution counts on them describe the crawled part. ## FAQ **What is a citation map?** A visual representation of the geographic locations of institutions that have cited your research papers. It shows the global reach of your academic work, which is useful for visa petitions, grant applications and understanding your research influence. **How do I create a citation map?** Search for your name or paste your Google Scholar profile URL on citationmap.com. CitationMap generates a map of the institutions worldwide that have cited your work. No coding or Python is needed. **What data source does CitationMap use?** Google Scholar. Its coverage spans every discipline and is updated continuously. If a citation is missing, it is almost always because Google Scholar has not indexed the citing work, or the citing paper lists no affiliation. **Can I use CitationMap for an O-1 or EB-1 visa petition?** Yes. A citation map helps document "original contributions of major significance" and "international acclaim". Immigration attorneys use the exported high-resolution PNG and CSV as exhibits. This is not legal advice; consult an immigration attorney. **Does a citation map help an EB-1B (outstanding researcher) petition?** Yes. EB-1B requires international recognition as an outstanding researcher or professor. A citation map shows that recognition by plotting every country citing your work. **How do I use a citation map for an EB-2 NIW?** Under the Matter of Dhanasar three-prong test, citations from diverse US and international institutions support prong 1 (substantial merit and national importance), and recognition from leading citing institutions supports prong 2 (well positioned to advance the endeavor). **Is CitationMap better than Connected Papers?** They answer different questions. Connected Papers shows how papers relate through citation and similarity graphs, for literature discovery. CitationMap shows where your citations come from geographically, for impact reporting and visa petitions. **Do I need Python?** No. Unlike the GitHub citation-map scripts, CitationMap runs in the browser. **Can I embed my map on my website?** Yes. Each profile has an embed code for an interactive iframe. **Can I export my map?** Yes: a poster, a high-resolution PNG and the underlying data as CSV, as a one-time purchase per scholar (see Pricing). **Is CitationMap free?** Viewing maps is free. Exports are a one-time purchase of $4.99 to $39.98, depending on the scholar's citation count. ## Methodology 1. **Resolve the author** to a Google Scholar profile (a stable ID such as JicYPdAAAAAJ). 2. **Fetch the author's publications** from Google Scholar. 3. **Fetch citing works** for each publication — the raw citation edges. 4. **Resolve citing institutions** from each citing author's affiliation, with a country and, where available, coordinates. 5. **Geocode where needed** (cached, so each institution is geocoded once). 6. **Aggregate** citation counts by country (choropleth) and by institution (markers and tooltips). Nothing on the map is hand-curated. If a map looks wrong, it usually reflects the underlying record: missing affiliations, duplicate author entries, or unindexed citing works. ## About CitationMap is built and maintained by Tom An, founder of Anureka Inc., a small, self-funded software studio making tools for researchers. Viewing maps is free; one-time export purchases pay for crawling and servers. Contact: tom@anureka.com. Pages: https://citationmap.com/about · https://citationmap.com/faq · https://citationmap.com/pricing · https://citationmap.com/guides