18 Feb 2022, 02:02
We were talking a lot about collaborations today during the meeting, and I’m not sure how you currently manage literature review projects, but I was recently introduced to an extremely helpful tool for literature reviews, especially when working with a team. Its called Rayyan, an online tool for helping sort out the mass amount of papers one can find while doing a lit review.
Basically you can save your Google scholar/Scopus/Web of Science/etc search as a .CSV file, and choose the fields you want to save (I normally will do Title, Author, Abstract and Keywords). You can then upload multiple .CSVs from different searches or engines to Rayyan, which will automatically remove duplicates. Rayyan also allows you to quickly skim papers, add tags to whether you will include or exclude them as well as why, and auto-sorts them into respective folders.
The nice part about Rayyan is the team accessibility aspect. It’s online so multiple people can work at once, and you don’t have to worry about people looking at the same papers someone already has. The main page when you login to rayyan also shows you all the collaborators, how many papers they’ve uploaded, sorted, and how much time they’ve spent doing so, so it’s really good at keeping people accountable.
Making an account is free and there are tons of tutorials. https://www.rayyan.ai/
This would have been extremely helpful while making my AOP and I will be using it moving forward. So I figured I would pass on the knowledge.
Basically you can save your Google scholar/Scopus/Web of Science/etc search as a .CSV file, and choose the fields you want to save (I normally will do Title, Author, Abstract and Keywords). You can then upload multiple .CSVs from different searches or engines to Rayyan, which will automatically remove duplicates. Rayyan also allows you to quickly skim papers, add tags to whether you will include or exclude them as well as why, and auto-sorts them into respective folders.
The nice part about Rayyan is the team accessibility aspect. It’s online so multiple people can work at once, and you don’t have to worry about people looking at the same papers someone already has. The main page when you login to rayyan also shows you all the collaborators, how many papers they’ve uploaded, sorted, and how much time they’ve spent doing so, so it’s really good at keeping people accountable.
Making an account is free and there are tons of tutorials. https://www.rayyan.ai/
This would have been extremely helpful while making my AOP and I will be using it moving forward. So I figured I would pass on the knowledge.