CART: A Tool for Making Paper Relevancy Screening Easier
Nathan Reitinger · The Journal of Open Source Software · 2024
CART (Culling Abstracts for Relevancy in Teams) provides a way for a team of individuals to complete the first step common to most systematization of knowledge (SoK) projects 1 : culling, in teams, a large set of research papers (i.e., titles and abstracts) based on per-project relevancy criteria.Existing software solutions either do not fit this need in a usable way-leading to error-prone voting-or do not offer the necessary functionality to work on the problem effectively.CART provides both functionality and usability: Functionally, CART accommodates teams of any size (i.e., accommodating race conditions), review requirements of any number (e.g., mandating that each paper is reviewed by n team members), and dynamic participation rates (e.g., team members may participate in as little or as much reviewing as they like).Usability-wise, CART provides a gamified user interface, making the process of reviewing papers easier, and therefore more accurate and efficient.