About Iktinah
An open-source Zotero research workspace designed to keep source material, questions, and verification close together.
01 / Mission
Make research work easier to inspect.
Research software should reduce repetitive work without obscuring the sources or decisions behind an answer. Iktinah brings paper reading, structured extraction, and questions scoped to selected papers into the Zotero workflow.
The aim is to help researchers spend less time moving context between tools and more time evaluating methods, evidence, and conclusions.
02 / Principles
Working principles
- PRINCIPLE 01Open source
- The Iktinah Zotero plugin is available under the GNU AGPL version 3 or later, so its implementation can be inspected and changed.
- PRINCIPLE 02Researcher control
- The open-source plugin can run with provider keys you control. Hosted-service data practices are documented in the Privacy Policy.
- PRINCIPLE 03Evidence in view
- The workflow is organized around collecting, reading, asking, comparing, verifying, and sharing research material.
Read the Privacy Policy for the exact distinction between the local plugin and hosted services.
03 / Participate
Review, report, or contribute.
Iktinah is an open-source project. Developers and researchers can inspect the implementation, report reproducible issues, or propose changes in the public repository.
Visit the GitHub repository (opens in a new tab)