Possible R version of paperfetcher about paperfetcher HOT 4 OPEN

Hey Dr. Haddaway,

Thank you for your email! We'd be more than happy to collaborate. We are both graduate students so we are a little busy with final papers at the moment, but we can collaborate on this in the summer, probably late June or early July. Could you tell us more about hackathon projects? We already have the R code for paperfetcher's handsearch function. We are thinking about making it into a package or putting it on a Shiny app.

We read your paper in RSM on citationchaser! It is well written and we will cite it in the paperfetcher manuscript:)

Best,
Qiyang and Akash

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Oh, feel free to email us at [email protected] and [email protected]
Look forward to our collaboration!

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Thanks so much Qiyang! Great to have connected :)

Of course - I can tell you more about the Evidence Synthesis Hackathon. ESH was established in 2017 with the aim of producing free and Open Source tools to support evidence synthesis (incl systematic reviews). We've had three physical hackathons, and continued hackathons online after the start of the pandemic. Our projects include both software tools and theoretical frameworks. We're interested in any and all languages, but since 2020, we've been running a dedicated conference for evidence synthesis and meta-analysis in R (ESMARConf; https://esmarconf.github.io). One ESH project is 'rmetaverse' which aims to identify, catalogue and describe all evidence synthesis packages in R.

You can see the specific projects here: https://www.eshackathon.org/projects.html.

I was thinking we could run an online hackathon this year some time, inviting experienced coders and evidence synthesis experts to help build functions, solve problems, test the app, etc. Our hackathons normally have 'leaders' who layout the functionality and delegate tasks, and who lead the 'vision' of the tool - these kinds of led hackathons work really well in my opinion.

We also have a special series of papers being published across two journals (Environmental Evidence and Campbell Systematic Reviews) that we'd love to encourage hackathon teams to write up their tools for: https://estechseries.github.io/.

Let me know what you think, and maybe we can have a Zoom chat sometime soon. Thanks again! And thanks for the complement about citationchaser :)

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Sure, we'd be happy to chat! I've sent you an email (to your SEI address) so that we can set up a time to talk.

Thanks!

Akash (and Qiyang)

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