If you need to document which duplicates were removed from your review (for reporting or audit purposes), you can export the list of deleted duplicates at any time.
Your data in Rayyan is always safe and retrievable.
When Would I Need This?
Common scenarios:
Documenting duplicates removed for PRISMA reporting
Providing an audit trail of duplicate resolution
Reviewing deleted records internally
Restoring references that you resolved as duplicates by mistake
How to Export Deleted Duplicates
Follow these steps carefully.
Step 1: Filter Deleted Duplicates
Open your review.
Navigate to the Review Data stage.
Open the Possible Duplicates facet.
Select the Deleted filter.
You will now see all records that were deleted during duplicate resolution.
Step 2: Export the Deleted Records
Keep the Deleted filter applied.
Open Review Settings.
Click Export.
In the export settings:
Select Filtered
Choose format: CSV
You will receive a ZIP file containing two files:
articles.csv
customizations_log.csv
What Does the Export Contain?
The exported articles.csv file includes:
Full citation metadata
Article titles
Authors
Publication details
System ID
This file serves as your official record of deleted duplicates.
You can open it in Excel for reporting, documentation, or submission purposes.
Optional: Restoring Deleted Duplicates
If you deleted duplicates by mistake, you can:
Extract the ZIP file.
Open the articles.csv file in Excel.
Remove the rows of articles you do not want to restore.
Keep only the records you wish to bring back into the review.
Save the file.
After re-uploading, you must run Duplicate Detection again.
During re-detection:
Previously Resolved duplicates will be reused
Previously marked Not Duplicates will be reused
Records still in the Deleted list will remain excluded from computation
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