Literature Review Python Packages

research-hub-pipeline

AI-operable research workspace for Zotero, Obsidian, and NotebookLM. Use any two, or all three, through CLI, MCP, REST, and dashboard.

research-pipeline

Deterministic stage-based pipeline for searching, screening, downloading, converting, and summarizing academic papers. CLI + MCP server.

scitex

Python toolkit for reproducible science — from raw data to manuscript. Includes 42 modules, 270 CLI commands, 186 MCP tools, and 493 skills.

openalex-local

Local OpenAlex database (284M+ works, FTS5 search, abstracts, SciTeX IF) with Python API, CLI, HTTP relay, and MCP server.

citracer

💬 Trace citation chains for any concept across research papers and render them as an interactive graph.

pmidcite

Get citation counts for a PubMed paper from the command line

findpapers

Findpapers is an application that helps researchers who are looking for references for their work.

opendraft

Open-source AI thesis writer with 19 specialized agents. Generate 20k+ word research drafts in 10 minutes. FREE (Gemini). Verified citations from 500M+ papers. Export PDF/Word/LaTeX. MIT licensed. Hosted version at openpaper.dev

litresearch

CLI tool that automates literature research from research questions to curated, ranked, and exported paper sets with structured reports.

snowballing

Provides tools for literature snowballing

scienceai-llm

An AI-powered scientific literature search engine that uses OpenAI's language models to analyze research papers. It enables users to extract data, ask complex questions, and perform ad hoc literature reviews, handling hundreds of papers simultaneously without needing metadata.

phd-deepread-workflow

Transform academic PDFs into structured literature notes and critical-thinking canvases for Obsidian

academic-review-tool

The Academic Review Tool (ART) is a package for performing academic reviews and bibliometric analyses in Python. It offers capabilities for discovering, retrieving, and analysing academic literature at scale.

paper-mcp

MCP server that retrieves academic papers by title — metadata, PDF, full text, citations, references.

bibscrap

Semi-automated tools for systematic literature reviews.

smartreview

An intelligent literature review tool that uses AI-powered embeddings to find the most relevant research papers based on your research interests.

zotnote

Streamlining reading notes with Zotero

litstudy

Using the power of Python and Jupyter notebooks to automate analysis of scientific literature

extralit-server

Open-source tool for accurate & fast scientific literature data extraction with LLM and human-in-the-loop.

tome-mcp

MCP server for managing a research paper library — PDFs, bibliography, semantic search, citations, and LaTeX document analysis.

naimai

Python library to help with scientific literature research

lisc

Literature Scanner: Automated collection & analyses of the scientific literature.

literature-mapper

Transform academic PDFs into a Knowledge Graph with typed claims, temporal analysis, bibliometric tools, and grounded LLM synthesis that cites only your corpus.

lixplore-cli

Academic Literature Search & Export CLI Tool