Software for snowballing (data mining) academic papers Snowballing is a methods of data mining. In this method, a literature contains references. By using some keyword/keywords I would like extract those papers alone. I would again go to the references of the extracted papers and then using keyword/keywords, I would extract few more papers. This goes on and on till I converge. 

I would like know is there any stand-alone software for this?
I don't think there's any such software available, and I doubt it would produce anything useful for the following reason:


  This goes on and on till I converge. 


Without any restriction such an approach would probably not converge, at least not before reaching a few millions papers since it would follow citations across fields. Even with restrictions, you're likely to end up with a vast amount of data which would be very hard to exploit manually.