CiteSource: Data-Driven Search Strategy Development and Evidence Synthesis Reporting

Deduplicates bibliographic citations from multiple sources while preserving customizable metadata, supporting data-driven search strategy development and evidence synthesis reporting. Search results can be analyzed using plots and tables, and imported or exported in 'RIS' and 'CSV' formats. An interactive 'shiny' application is included for exploratory use.

Version: 0.2.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: dplyr, DT, forcats, ggnewscale, ggplot2, glue, gt, igraph, parallelly, purrr, RecordLinkage, rlang, scales, stringr, tibble, tidyr, tidyselect, UpSetR, utf8
Suggests: bslib, htmltools, jsonlite, knitr, plotly, progressr, rmarkdown, shiny, shinyalert, shinybusy, shinyjs, shinyWidgets, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-06-16
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.CiteSource (may not be active yet)
Author: Trevor Riley ORCID iD [aut, cre], Kaitlyn Hair ORCID iD [aut], Lukas Wallrich ORCID iD [aut], Matthew Grainger ORCID iD [aut], Sarah Young ORCID iD [aut], Chris Pritchard ORCID iD [aut], Neal Haddaway ORCID iD [aut], Martin Westgate [cph] (Author of included synthesisr fragments), Eliza Grames [cph] (Author of included synthesisr fragments), Kaitlyn Hair [cph] (Author of included ASySD deduplication code), CAMARADES Group [cph] (Authors of ASySD (github.com/camaradesuk/ASySD))
Maintainer: Trevor Riley <tnriley at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/ESHackathon/CiteSource/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://eshackathon.github.io/CiteSource/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: CiteSource results

Documentation:

Reference manual: CiteSource.html , CiteSource.pdf
Vignettes: Source Analysis Across Screening Phases (source, R code)
Benchmark Testing (source, R code)
Comparing Search Strings (source, R code)
Assessing Usefulness of Databases for Evidence Synthesis (source, R code)
Comparing Database Topic Coverage (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: CiteSource_0.2.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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