Tired of Manual Screening for your scoping review? Here's How I Built My Digital Assistant
I hit a wall last month. After spending hours crafting the perfect search queries for PubMed and Web of Science, I exported everything to Zotero only to realize I had a new problem - figuring out which papers actually mattered for my coffee drying research from over 600 academic papers. I started the usual way - open abstract, read, decide, repeat. After screening about 20 papers, a pattern emerged. I was seeing lots of papers about coffee roasting models (interesting, but wrong process), coffee ground drying (post-processing, not what I needed), and even mathematical models of coffee stain patterns, coffee droplets (Mathematically interesting but not the kind of thing to include in my investigation). Those first 20 papers were actually valuable - not for their content, but for showing me exactly what I needed to exclude. Coffee roasting had different keywords and temperature ranges. Coffee ground studies focused on spent coffee waste. and some works focused on the ma...
