I am looking for open source software/tool/application alternatives to be used for literature review or meta-analysis.
What is your suggestion considering the below items:
- Finding the most appropriate references on a given topic,
- Saving and sharing them with your co-authors,
- Exporting the references correctly for the reference styles of different journals,
- Taking some notes regarding to articles to remind you important aspects of that paper,
- Conduct some analysis from the articles that you will use for a review similar paper.
I appreciate any feedback on this.
Thanks
Dear Elif Sertel
I suggest these 10 reference management tools:
- Mendeley.
- ReadCube Papers.
- EndNote.
- EasyBib.com.
- Zotero.
- Cite This For Me (formerly RefME)
- Paperpile.
- Sciwheel.
Kind Regards
Qamar Ul Islam
I would suggest https://www.connectedpapers.com/ for finding the most appropriate references on a given topic. I recently discovered this and it's free.
Hello dear Prof. Elif Sertel ,
Prof. Qamar Ul Islam has provided a list of candidate tools. Zotero is free and open-source. In Mendeley (free but not open-source) I appreciate highly a feature allowing quick and accurate importing of any doi: Copy the doi address and paste it into the corresponding field in the manual addition window. Then, clicking on the magnifying glass / lookup button retrieves automatically all article's information.
Regarding team collaboration, we have conducted several systematic reviews on topics such as e-learning, virtual reality, augmented reality, game-based learning, human-computer interaction etc. We have found using collaborative platforms such as Google Drive an effective solution for document sharing, note taking and coding of articles.
I hope this helps.
Best regards,
Dear Elif Hocam,
I would also recommend LaTeX (and BibTeX accordingly). Even though it is not a user friendly "framework" (especially for text intensive manuscripts), it is very powerful in exporting the references correctly for the reference styles of different journals. However, if you have a math-expression intensive manuscript, LaTeX-BibTeX is probably the most efficient way to write the manuscript and revise it to different templates of different journals.
Regards,
JabRef is excelent for managing bibliographies and PDFs (jabref.org or www.fosshub.com/JabRef.html). It uses LaTeX BibTex format, can grab details from a DOI, and even find full-text PDFs sometimes. There is a browser plugin for automatic reference generation, and the database can be seen on Android with the Library app.
Dear Elif Hocam,
There have been several good suggestions made by previous replies.
I would focus on the question from practical applications point of view - free tools for extensive systematic review. For this purposes free reference managers are Mendelay and Zotero. Depending on wether You need to exchange the original article files with colleagues, Zotero is applicable in exchanging the full text outside the journal databases.
Free tool for manuscript screening is Colandr - https://www.colandrapp.com/
Free tool for searching with batch downloading and analysis from Google Scholar is - Publish or Perish - https://harzing.com/resources/publish-or-perish
Hope it is helpful.
Best regards
Ahto
Reference management as well as academic mapping/heat mapping tools were already proposed previously.
Review software like colandr as proposed by Ahto Kangur is another type of software and facilitates already the review process and cooperation with the co-authors (even internationally). I myself am using colandr at the moment and find it quiet helpful for the process.
an overview of such software, with feature description can be found in this article:
Article Software tools to support title and abstract screening for s...
another good place to look for specific tools for automation some of the steps in a review process is the SR tool box, see reference + link below:
Marshall, C., Sutton, A., O'Keefe, H., Johnson, E. (Eds.). (2021). The Systematic Review Toolbox. Available from: http://www.systematicreviewtools.com/
hope it helps and good luck
I have just been trying to keep references from papers in a huge bibliography I put together in an MS Word document. Do you think that it's better to use tool like EndNote?
> keep references from papers in a huge bibliography
For that I would recommend jabref. Even if you do not use LaTeX (you should!)
Dear Elif Sertel
mostly used software for bibliography search and tracking
- Mendeley.
- EndNote.
- ReadCube Papers.
- EasyBib.com.
- Sciwheel.
- Zotero.
- Article Galaxy Enterprise.
- Cite This For Me (formerly RefME)
Dear mam,
I used Mendeley. In this software, classification and maintaining the literature is easy. It is also easy for reading and citing the literatures through Mendeley.
I suggest Mendeley, you can download references from Google scholar and introduce them in Mendeley for citations and bibliography.
I suggest Mendeley. It has many options like Mendeley Desktop, Mendeley Web Importer, Mendeley Reference Manager (MS Office Plugin), etc.
You can any of the following two very commonly used
1.) Mendeley: It is from Elsevier. So it will have the standard formats of most of elsevier journals.
2.) Endnote: This is another very commonly used one.
Both are pretty good and easy to use.
I will go a bit a different route though these other tools are super helpful as well. There is a Machine Learning assisted program called ASReview which is really good for systematic literature reviews, where it can use machine learning to capture the most relevant papers in a large stack of literature. The output is then nicely formatted where you can review your selected relevant papers and review from there and you can build your review document from this output. Hope this helps and happy reviewing!
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