Rayyan helps you and your team screen references for systematic reviews and other literature reviews, from importing your search results to exporting the final set.
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What is Rayyan?
Rayyan is a platform for screening and managing the references in a review. It uses AI to rank references by how likely you are to include them and to highlight key terms, so your team can spend its time on decisions. More than 1 million researchers use Rayyan, across many fields.
How a review works in Rayyan
- Create a review and choose its review type.
- Import your references from databases or reference managers.
- Detect duplicates and decide which records to keep.
- Invite your team, if you're working with others.
- Screen titles and abstracts: Include, Exclude, or Maybe.
- Screen the full texts of the references you included.
- Extract data and assess risk of bias.
- Export your results and create your PRISMA diagram.
Key features
| Feature | What it does | Available on |
|---|---|---|
| Import references | Upload reference files from your device or My Library, in formats such as RIS, CSV, BibTeX, EndNote, and PubMed | All plans |
| Duplicate detection | Find exact and near-duplicate records and choose which to keep. The Auto-Resolver handles them in bulk | All plans (Auto-Resolver: paid plans) |
| Screening | Make Include, Exclude, or Maybe decisions, and add labels, exclusion reasons, and notes | All plans |
| Relevance Ranking | Compute Ratings ranks undecided references by how likely you are to include them. Advanced Ratings+ starts making suggestions after just 5 decisions | All plans (Ratings filter and Advanced Ratings+: Advanced and above) |
| Blind Mode | Hide team decisions so each person screens independently | All plans |
| PICO highlighting | Highlight Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome terms and filter by them | Advanced and Institutional plans |
| PRISMA diagram | Create a PRISMA flow diagram from your review | Paid plans |
| Data Extraction and Risk of Bias | Extract data from included studies and assess them with RoB 2, MMAT, or NOS | All plans (MMAT and NOS: Advanced and above) |
| Mobile app | Screen references on iOS or Android, even offline | All plans (Free: up to 100 screening decisions) |
| ResearchPilot™ | AI Reviewer, AI Analyzer, Auto Extraction, Review Articles Mode, and Help Center Mode | Institutional plans |
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