UWM Libraries Research and Course Guides: Systematic Review Tutorial: Systematic Review Tools

Systematic Review Tools

Rayyan
(FREE) Free to use Systematic Review tool. Import references, deduplicate, record decisions for include/exclude, and more!

DistillerSR
($$$ Cost Varies) DistillerSR is a Systematic Review management tool available in a few different subscription package levels. Excellent for importing references, de-duplicating, and recording decisions in a Systematic Review.

PICOPortal
(FREE) Free Systematic Review tool that uses AI to assist with reference import, deduplication, data extraction, and more facets of systematic review protocol.
PICOPortal Tutorials
Learn, step by step, how to start a systematic review project in PICOPortal, import references, deduplicate, extract data, and more.

Covidence
($$$ - subscription options) A rich suite of Systematic Review functions including protocol development, search assistance, de-duplication, endNote integration, data extraction, and more. Covidence is considered the top-tier systematic review tool.

SR Tool Box
Developed and edited by Dr. Chris Marshall, The Systematic Review Toolbox is a community-driven, searchable, web-based catalogue of tools that support the systematic review process across multiple domains. The resource aims to help reviewers find appropriate tools based on how they provide support for the systematic review process. Users can perform a simple keyword search (i.e. Quick Search) to locate tools, a more detailed search (i.e. Advanced Search) allowing users to select various criteria to find specific types of tools and submit new tools to the database.
Systematic Review Accelerator
The Systematic Review Accelerator (SRA) is free software developed at Bond University which includes a validated deduplication tool for faster deduplication of search results, a word frequency analyser to help with search strategy development, a search translator to speed up translation of searches from PubMed/Ovid MEDLINE to other major databases, and a hotkey tool to make screening articles in EndNote easier.
Inciteful
Inciteful offers two tools--the paper suggestor tool and the Literature connector which can be used for finding literature that might be missing or locating connections between known articles.