Systematic Reviews

Freely available online software for Semi-Automatic Citation Screening

Free, open-source software that uses Machine Learning and Active Learning to screen search results

RevMan has been designed to integrate with other systematic review software and new features and updates are added regularly. Cochrane Review authors can log in to RevMan to view the dashboard (all reviews) and edit reviews online. No cost for Cochrane authors, an annual subscription cost is charged to other users.

NVivo is intended to help users organize and analyze non-numerical or unstructured data. The software allows users to classify, sort and arrange information; examine relationships in the data; and combine analysis with linking, shaping, searching and modeling. CSIRO does not provide this software.

Publish or Perish is a free software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses a variety of data sources to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents a range of citation metrics, including the number of papers, total citations and the h-index.

You can also use Publish or Perish to decide which journals to submit to, to prepare for a job interview, to conduct a literature review, to do bibliometric research etc

a Web application that applies machine learning techniques to semi-automate the research article screening process. Users can upload research articles from existing databases and manually screen a small portion of these articles. The Research Screener system will then actively learn the most relevant articles for the study and present these to the researcher during the screening process.

SciMAT is a free, open source (GPLv3) software tool developed to perform a science mapping analysis under a longitudinal framework. SciMAT provides different modules that help the analyst to carry out the steps of the science mapping workflow:

A module dedicated to the management of the knowledge base and its entities,
A module responsible for carrying out the science mapping analysis, and
A module to visualize the generated results and maps.

VOSviewer is a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks. VOSviewer also offers text mining functionality that can be used to construct and visualize co-occurrence networks of important terms extracted from a body of scientific literature.

This tool automates this process by making use of the Lens.org API. An input article list can be used to return a list of all referenced records, and/or all citing records in the Lens.org database (consisting of PubMed, PubMed Central, CrossRef, Microsoft Academic Graph and CORE)

An online browser based tool that can be used for the screening and data extraction process of a systematic review

The PRESS 2015 guideline provides a set of recommendations concerning the information that should be used by librarians and other information specialists when they are asked to evaluate these electronic search strategies.

Rayyan is a mobile app or web-based browser tool that can be used for the screening process of a systematic review

A web-based reading and analysis environment that can be used to analyse a preliminary corpus for the purpose of search string creation

This database presents an assortment of search filters developed and maintained by CADTH’s Research Information Services Filters Working Group.

The Campbell Collaboration is an international social science research network that produces high quality, open and policy-relevant evidence syntheses, plain language summaries and policy briefs.

Cochrane is for anyone interested in using high-quality information to make health decisions. Whether you are a clinician, patient or carer, researcher, or policy-maker, Cochrane evidence provides a powerful tool to enhance your healthcare knowledge and decision-making.

An open community of stakeholders working towards a sustainable global environment and the conservation of biodiversity. CEE seeks to promote and deliver evidence syntheses on issues of greatest concern to environmental policy and practice as a public service.

A thorough guide following through the Systematic Review process from protocol to data extraction

The InterTASC Information Specialists' Sub-Group Search Filter Resource is a collaborative venture to identify, assess and test search filters designed to retrieve research by study design or focus

A living freely available resource for anyone sourcing and developing search strategies for healthcare topics. It is a work in progress and we will be updating it regularly.

PRISMA is an evidence-based minimum set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. PRISMA primarily focuses on the reporting of reviews evaluating the effects of interventions, but can also be used as a basis for reporting systematic reviews with objectives other than evaluating interventions (e.g. evaluating aetiology, prevalence, diagnosis or prognosis).

PROSPERO accepts registrations for systematic reviews, rapid reviews and umbrella reviews. PROSPERO does not accept scoping reviews or literature scans. Sibling PROSPERO sites registers systematic reviews of human studies and systematic reviews of animal studies.

Literature review and synthesis is central to research and evidence-informed decision making. Automation can make the process faster, while maintaining and enhancing quality. The SRA is a suite of automation tools built to make conducting all types of evidence reviews or synthesis easier and faster. As each tool is designed to help with a specific review task, people can use as many or as few as they like.

This website is a living systematic review bringing together evidence of problems with published systematic reviews. The aim is to inform, educate and improve practice in the future.

The Systematic Review Toolbox is an online catalogue of tools that support various tasks within the systematic review and wider evidence synthesis process. It was developed and founded by Dr Christopher Marshall and Anthea Sutton, launching in 2014.