lit-tag: An app for adding custom tags and notes to a citation database
For researchers conducting literature reviews, this tool provides a convenient interface for organizing and annotating citations, but it is an incremental improvement over existing citation management features.
The paper presents lit-tag, an R Shiny app that enables users to add custom tags and notes to citation databases exported from Zotero, facilitating literature review and analysis. The app has been used in several scientific reviews related to marine carbon dioxide removal.
To facilitate the review, evaluation and analysis of scientific literature, the lit-tag R Shiny application provides a convenient interface for users to generate a citation database with custom, user-defined tags and notes. Lit-tag is not subject-specific and is useful for any field of research. Starting with a table of citations exported from a Zotero library and a user-generated Excel file describing a set of tags and notes fields, lit-tag provides tools for assigning tags and notes to papers (lit-tag-builder module) and for exporting, graphing, and generating reports from the resulting database (lit-tag-viewer module). The application has been used in several scientific reviews related to marine carbon dioxide removal.