This is a brief introduction to "Connected Papers" which prides itself as a unique visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work. Whereas accessibility to the Internet may appear to have offered a solution to the problem of limited access to relevant research literature, it may have opened another frustrating challenge. That is how to navigate the thousands, if not millions, of literature sources to sift out those that are most relevant to the research one is undertaking. Connected papers take it from here by providing a tool that searches for relevant research literature in a field enquiry. Intro audio courtesy of Bensound: https://www.bensound.com