Welcome to Rayyan
Rayyan is an intelligent research collaboration platform that saves you time completing literature reviews and systematic reviews. Rayyan was designed by researchers for researchers, with the help of subject matter experts, to provide a highly intelligent, intuitive, and scalable research collaboration platform that saves you your valuable time.
Rayyan uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to understand language, learn from decisions, and help research teams reduce the time it takes to complete their systematic reviews and literature reviews. Researchers can cut through mountains of prior studies using Rayyan’s AI-powered workbench and time-saving features to find relevant information to extract and synthesize to inform their latest research.
Rayyan enables researchers to turn fragments of unproductive time throughout their day back into productive time using the Rayyan Mobile App to work on the go. Users of the Rayyan mobile app can collaborate on reviews from anywhere, anytime, even offline!
Rayyan already is trusted by over 1 million researchers, information specialists, librarians, and students who use it to inform all types of evidence-based decision-making and accelerate their research findings.
Click here to learn how to sign up for a Rayyan account and get started today!
How to Use Rayyan
Rayyan is an easy-to-learn web application. You can start by simply uploading references to Rayyan, to create a new review, and deduplicate them. You can then invite your collaborators to Rayyan and start screening your reference articles. Rayyan will record every decision for you and enable you to export all the results when you are finished.
Please follow this Quick Start Guide to learn more, and visit the Rayyan Help Center for additional information.
Rayyan’s Main Features & Benefits
You can now enjoy the following Rayyan features to work more efficiently and to accelerate your research findings:
| FEATURES | BENEFITS |
|---|---|
| Import References | Upload up to 10 files of 100MB at a time in any combination of industry standard file formats, including compressed files and nested compressed files. Learn more |
| Importing Directly from Mendeley (Coming Soon) |
You can now search Mendeley with its repository of over 100 million reference articles and then import your saved Collections directly to Rayyan for your literature reviews and systematic reviews, with just a couple of clicks. |
| De-Duplicate | Rayyan’s de-duplication has been ranked highest for accuracy and sensitivity. Automatically deduplicate 100% EXACT matches, and detect more possible duplicates with Rayyan’s industry-leading deduplication. Learn more |
| Auto-Resolver |
Quickly and automatically resolve all possible duplicates that have a high similarity percentage, defined as 95% similarity or higher, with one click. Learn more |
| Collaborate |
Invite an unlimited number of Collaborators, Reviewers, or Viewers to collaborate with anyone, anywhere, anytime via the web. Learn more |
| Blind Mode |
Toggle Blind Mode to eliminate a source of human bias and to resolve any decision conflicts. Learn more |
| Annotate | Make inclusion decisions, assign labels, provide reasons for exclusion, and add notes to your references as you go. All of the information entered by your review team will be recorded automatically and available for Export. Learn more |
| Chat |
Use the built-in chat feature to communicate with your review team, or the Help chat to find support or articles and request help from Rayyan support. |
| Relevance Ranking | Rayyan learns from your decisions and returns a 5-star relevance ranking on all remaining articles to help you read for relevance faster. Learn more |
| Keywords |
Enter precise keywords for inclusion and exclusion, filter by indices of keywords, and use keyword highlighting to spot relevant articles faster. Learn more |
| Intelligent Search |
Enter search terms in the intelligent search bar to return relevant articles including word variations to find all relevant articles faster. |
| PICO Elements | Detect all PICO elements and highlight those with a 70% confidence level or higher to allow you to spot relevant articles faster. Use the PICO filters with truncated search terms to find all relevant articles. Learn more |
| PRISMA |
Generate a pre-set, ready-to-use PRISMA flowchart, saving you all the labour of creating one from scratch. Learn more |
| Data Sampling |
Create randomized subsets of your dataset to streamline the systematic review process. Assign specific datasets to collaborators, reduce bias through randomization, and improve Rayyan’s predictions classifier (compute ratings). Ideal for working with larger datasets efficiently. Learn more |
| Mobile App | Review on-the-go or offline using the mobile app. Work from anywhere, anytime, and turn fractured time away from your desk into productive hours. |
| Revoke Collaborators | Revoke collaborators and choose to either preserve or delete their contributions. Learn more |
| Copy | Copy references from one review to another, including the ability to filter which references get copied. Learn more |
| Data Extraction | Smooth data extraction along with Customization Logs – a record of all the Rayyan-specific information (decisions, labels and exclusion reasons). The customization file will include the history of all customizations done on the review and is helpful in tracking all actions. Learn more |
Rayyan’s Help Center
Rayyan offers a Help Center full of tutorials, FAQs, and help articles with the ability to ask support for additional help. For more knowledge on how to use Rayyan, visit the Rayyan Help Center.
Using the Rayyan Mobile App
A cutting-edge introduction to the systematic review process, the all new Rayyan App helps make even more efficient use of your time by offering you the ability to work on the go and even offline. Download it now from the App Store or Google Play and enjoy the ability to:
- Create a review, invite reviewers, and manage roles.
- Scroll through titles and abstracts
- Swipe to quickly make inclusion decisions.
- Auto advance after making each decision
- Tap to add a label or reason
- Sort references to prioritize the order in which they appear
- Filter references to work with any subset at a time
- Perform title only or title and abstract screening
- Hide journal and author information while screening
- Select multiple references at the same time
- View highlighted keywords for inclusion and exclusion
- Work on the go from anywhere
- Download reviews to work offline
- Monitor review team progress
- Toggle Blind Mode On/Off
- Configure, save and switch among configuration settings
- View all your review projects
- Train the 5-star relevance ranking algorithm • and more!!!
📅 Interested in a webinar?
We're excited to invite you to our upcoming Rayyan webinars! Whether you're new to the platform or looking to deepen your knowledge, our webinars are designed to help you get the most out of Rayyan. Register here to secure your spot!
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