Built as a third-party extension for Zotero* reference manager for systematic reviews and text-based research analysis, it turns a library collection into a project workspace for screening, extraction, semantic search, report development, and traceable research workflows.
Systematic Reviewer - Research Preview supports automated, semi-automated, and manual workflows across data harvesting, screening, extraction, semantic search, and reporting, while still letting researchers inspect outputs, refine decisions, edit reports, and intervene at any stage.
Researchers can also use it with qualitative interviews, reports, policy documents, field material, and other text-based sources that require structured extraction, comparison, and analysis.
Use the local or hosted AI runtimes that fit your environment, including, but not limited to, Ollama*, LM Studio*, and other compatible APIs, and connect the plugin to MCP-compatible agent workflows such as Codex*.
Systematic Reviewer - Research Preview is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later. The licence is there to keep the software open, inspectable, and available to the research community.
The project is currently solo-developed by Dr Rutkauskas and is looking for collaborators and funders who can help take it further. Teams can review the code, adapt it to their own environment, and contribute improvements under the same terms. OpenResearchTools is especially interested in collaborators who care about transparent, reproducible, and openly governed automated analysis.
* Systematic Reviewer - Research Preview is an independent third-party project by OpenResearchTools, developed by Dr Rutkauskas. It is developed as an extension for Zotero and can work with external AI and agent tools, but it is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Zotero, Codex, LM Studio, Ollama, or any other third-party software referenced on this site.