"Paperfetcher": A Tool to Automate Handsearching and Citation Searching for Systematic Reviews

Autor/inn/en	Pallath, Akash; Zhang, Qiyang
Titel	"Paperfetcher": A Tool to Automate Handsearching and Citation Searching for Systematic Reviews
Quelle	In: Research Synthesis Methods, 14 (2023) 2, S.323-335 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Pallath, Akash) ORCID (Zhang, Qiyang)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1759-2879
DOI	10.1002/jrsm.1604
Schlagwörter	Literature Reviews; Online Searching; Automation; Citations (References); Information Retrieval; Metadata; Journal Articles; Computer Software; Usability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Online-Recherche; Citations; Zitat; Metadaten; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Abstract	Systematic reviews are vital instruments for researchers to understand broad trends in a field and synthesize evidence on the effectiveness of interventions in addressing specific issues. The quality of a systematic review depends critically on having comprehensively surveyed all relevant literature on the review topic. In addition to database searching, handsearching is an important supplementary technique that helps increase the likelihood of identifying all relevant studies in a literature search. Traditional handsearching requires reviewers to manually browse through a curated list of field-specific journals and conference proceedings to find articles relevant to the review topic. This manual process is not only time-consuming, laborious, costly, and error-prone due to human fatigue, but it also lacks replicability due to its cumbersome manual nature. To address these issues, this paper presents a free and open-source Python package and an accompanying web-app, "Paperfetcher," to automate the retrieval of article metadata for handsearching. With "Paperfetcher's" assistance, researchers can retrieve article metadata from designated journals within a specified time frame in just a few clicks. In addition to handsearching, it also incorporates a beta version of citation searching in both forward and backward directions. "Paperfetcher" has an easy-to-use interface, which allows researchers to download the metadata of retrieved studies as a list of DOIs or as an RIS file to facilitate seamless import into systematic review screening software. To the best of our knowledge, "Paperfetcher" is the first tool to automate handsearching with high usability and a multi-disciplinary focus. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01