Systematic and Scoping Reviews

Developed by the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, The Polyglot Search Translator or simply, the Polyglot, is designed to translate search strings across databases to aid with running searches for systematic reviews. The Polyglot translates either a PubMed or Ovid MEDLINE search string into the following database platforms; the Cochrane Library; Embase (via Elsevier); Web of Science; Scopus; EBSCO (e.g. CINAHL); Ovid (e.g. PsycINFO or Embase via Ovid) and PubMed.

A MeSH analysis grid can help identify the problems in your search strategy by presenting the ways articles are indexed in the MEDLINE database in an easy-to-scan tabular format. The Yale MeSH Analyzer can help this process by automatically retrieving the article metadata necessary for generating a MeSH analysis grid, and automatically formatting the display of the grid.

MeSH on Demand identifies MeSH® terms in your submitted text (abstract or manuscript). MeSH on Demand also lists PubMed similar articles relevant to your submitted text.

WordFreq is a tool which is designed to take a library of articles, and output the most common words/phrases that appear within that library. It is a helpful tool for identifying additional keywords and phrases for a systematic search.

The SearcherRefinery tool compares a list of PubMed IDs (Seed PMIDS) against a PubMed search and displays the number of PubMed search results, relevant citations to find, and relevant citations found. Use this tool to identify terms and phrases in your search than are adding irrelevant results to your search.

In searching for research articles, we often want to obtain lists of references from across studies, and also obtain lists of articles that cite a particular study. In systematic reviews, this supplementary search technique is known as "citation chasing": forward citation chasing looks for all records citing one or more articles of known relevance; backward ciation chasing looks for all records referenced in one or more articles.This package contains functions to automate this process by making use of the Lens.org API. An input article list can be used to return a list of all referenced records, and/or all citing records in the Lens.org database (consisting of PubMed, PubMed Central, CrossRef, Microsoft Academic Graph and CORE)

Rayyan is a well-regarded systematic review screening software. It offers a robust free version, which while limited, is a complete and usable product.

The Deduplicator is a tool to remove duplicate records from libraries. It is an easy-to-use free tool to deduplicate search results when searching multiple databases.

The Screenatron is a tool designed to allow fast abstract screening when performing a systematic review.It is important to note that the Screenatron runs locally on individual computers.This means each screener works individually on their own pool of studies. Once each screener has completed screening, they export their include decisions and use the Disputatron to identify and resolve them.

The Disputatron is a tool designed to automatically detect screening disagreements between reviewers of a systematic review, allowing for easy resolution of screening conflicts.

SRDR is a free online data extraction tool for systematic reviews, as well as a public repository of systematic review data.

The Methods Wizard is a guided form that will help you write up the methods section of your systematic review, step-by-step.