paperfetcher

About

Paperfetcher is a Python package to mine papers for systematic reviews. In particular, paperfetcher automates the hand-search and snowball-search portions of the systematic review process.

Paperfetcher works with Python 3.7+.

Usage

See the example Jupyter notebooks below to get started:

1. Crossref hand-search getting started guide
2. Crossref snowball-search getting started guide (coming soon!)

Once you understand the workflow, read the Module Documentation to learn more about how to use paperfetcher's various modules, classes and functions.

Installation

Installation with pip

1. [Install pip]
2. Install paperfetcher using pip:

pip install paperfetcher

Installation from source

1. Clone this repository
2. In the repository directory, run

python setup.py install

or, if you have pip installed

pip install .

Running tests (optional)

You can run tests to make sure that paperfetcher is working correctly on your system.

1. To run integration tests, in the repository directory, run

cd tests/tests_integration
pytest

2. To run unit tests, in the repository directory, run

cd tests/tests_unit
pytest