I go through a lot of the details in my post on the Rust subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/kfiaqn/just_wanted_to...

But long story short, I end up doing most of the graph analysis by passing in the citations, using PyO3, to graph-tool in python then returning the data I need about each paper. I am planning on moving that over to Rust. But not being an academic I wanted to get feedback on the quality of the results before making it difficult to quickly test different types of algorithms.

Are you planning on open sourcing parts of it?

Eventually I'd like to move the site to open source, but right now the repo isn't in a place where I can do that. As for specific parts, it's pretty purpose built and this is my first Rust project and so I'm not sure which parts would be helpful to the community. And I doubt they would meet the communities standards just yet :)

It’s better to open source sooner rather than later even if it’s not in a place you’d want it to be. Like some of the work you have to do might be done by the community.