Looking for feedback on an open-source literature review tool focused on reproducibility
Hi everyone,
As I've been recently working on a survey paper and needed a PRISMA figure to document the research process for reproducibility, I noticed that not many open-source tools support this natively. So I decided to build my own tool, and as time went on it ended up becoming my everyday lit review tool.
To the best of my knowledge, there are many great open-source tools for systematic reviews (AsReview, litstudy, paperscraper or ProfOlaf) and I clearly don't pretend to replace them. Surveyer (that's the name) simply focuses on a slightly different problem: reproducibility and proper exports for a survey papers and making it an another option for lit reviews.
It does everything from fetching (currently supports 5 sources), deduplication, concept and keyword filtering, snowballing (citation chasing) and complete exports (xlsx, PRISMA and BibTeX). It also has a nice TUI so feel free to play with it.
GitHub: https://github.com/IsmailHatim/Surveyer
I'd really appreciate any feedback from you, if you think that something is missing, have ideas for improvements or would like to contribute I'd be very happy to hear.
Important Note: LLM relevance filter feature is optional, as I know it can be non-reproducible and people are sceptical about this and reasonably so. But many recent survey paper use it in their systematic review and methodology as it can save you time with the manual review. Anyway this filtering is *soft* and auditable so papers are not excluded before the manual review.