Paperfetcher

Automate handsearching and citation searching for your systematic reviews.

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Web-app features

Free and open source

Paperfetcher was developed by academics for academics. Our app is free and its source code is publicly available on Github.

Powerful handsearch

Fetch batches of articles from 90,000+ journals indexed in Crossref.

One-click snowballing

Forward and backward snowballing using over 1.2 billion DOI-to-DOI citations in the Crossref and COCI databases.

Versatile data export

Export data in the RIS format, which can directly be imported into citation management and systematic review screening tools, or as a text file.

Automatic reproducibility reports

Automatically generate reports of parameters used to perform handsearches and snowballing. Copy reports to your clipboard with one click.

Online or local execution

Choose between running the web app online or locally on your computer after a few steps of setup.

Paperfetcher's Python package

Paperfetcher's web-app is powered by an easy-to-use and extensible Python package. You can write your own scripts for handsearch or snowballing using Paperfetcher's python package. You can export data to many more formats (CSV, Excel and pandas DataFrames), and add custom features.

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