Systematic Reviews: Screening & Extraction

Endnote at Stirling

With EndNote, you can: import references directly from literature databases; organise and manage references; and format bibliographies and manuscripts.

Most screening and extraction tools require a subscription although one or two have a free version. The University does not have a subscription to any tool although some individual researchers or research groups may have their own licence.

• Covidence
  • Subscription service (free to those conducting a Cochrane Review)
  • You can register for a free trial that gives you a full-featured version for up to 500 records of your own data
  • Can import citations, facilitate screening titles, abstracts and full-text, populate risk of bias tables, assist with data extraction, and export to common formats

• Rayyan
  • Free version allows 3 active reviews at a time. You can screen abstracts, upload full-text and export decisions. Pricing for full version at: https://www.rayyan.ai/pricing/
  • Rated 4.5 out of 5 in a 2017 paper in Research Synthesis Methods https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28374510
  • Quick tour video at: https://www.youtube.com/embed/irAOQgzFMs4 or use the Rayyan Help Center
  • Also get great functionality on the Rayyan app (Download it now from the App Store or Google Play!)

• Abstrackr
  • From Brown University, free, open-source software 
  • Semi-automated abstract screening for systematic reviews
  • Upload your abstracts (from Endnote or other Reference Managers, invite reviewers and get screening

• EPPI-Reviewer
  • Subscription service
  • Ssoftware for all types of literature review, including systematic reviews, meta-analyses, 'narrative' reviews and meta-ethnographies

• Systematic Review Data Repository Plus (SRDR+)
  • Free tool for extraction and management of data for systematic review or meta-analysis
  • It is also an open and searchable archive of systematic reviews and their data
     
• LASER AI
  • Subscription Service
  • AI-powered processes to aid screening, full text retrieval, data extraction and reporting. Can integrate with other tools via APIs, import controlled vocabularies, and export data in variety of formats.