How can reviewers know that an article has already been voted on without turning off blind mode?
As I have 4 reviewers and I splited the articles among them but the order of showing sometimes change although we set all articles in the same order.
How I can avoid multiple voting on one article without turning blind mode off?
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Hi Sanaz,
Great question! Here's how this works in Rayyan:
Seeing if an article already has a decision (without breaking Blind Mode): With Blind Mode on, each reviewer only sees their own decisions on the article list, colored decision chips next to the title reflect only what you personally decided, not your teammates' choices. So there isn't a way to see "someone else already voted" without seeing what that vote was.
However, Rayyan does offer the Min and Max Member Decisions filters in the Filters panel. These let you filter references by how many team members have made a decision on them (a count), without revealing what that decision actually is or who made it. This is specifically designed for situations like yours, collaborative reviews with Blind Mode on, where you want visibility into progress without compromising independent screening.
For avoiding duplicate voting when splitting work among 4 reviewers: Since manually splitting by list order isn't reliable (the order can shift, as you noticed), we'd recommend using Rayyan's Sampling feature instead. This lets you create distinct, non-overlapping subsets of your full reference list and assign each subset to a specific reviewer, this way each reviewer only sees and works through their designated batch, avoiding overlap entirely, regardless of how the full list is sorted or displayed.
Thank you for being part of the Rayyan Community, questions like yours help us all learn how to make the most of the platform!
Best,
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