Rayyan: Exploring and Filtering Searches for Eligible Studies for Cochrane Reviews

rayyan.qcri.org

Ahmed Elmagarmid Zbys Fedorowicz* Hossam HammadyIhab Ilyas Madian Khabsa Mourad Ouzzani

*In collaboration with

Rayyan’s Goal

Help systematic review authors produce high quality reviews in a quick, easy, and intuitive fashion. Authors create reviews, analyze them, collaborate on them, maintain them over time, and get suggestions for article inclusion & exclusion.

Rayyan’s Key Features• Web accessible

– Fully cloud-based and secure– No need to store anything locally

• Support different upload formats– RefMan, BibTeX, EndNote, …,

Text or MS Word

• Multi-facet navigation and filtering– Rayyan extracts and computes

facets, e.g., authors, MeSH– Authors filter on facets, user-

labels, and search keywords

• Similarity graph navigation– Similar entries are clustered– Fully tunable similarity thresholds

• Embedded prediction of Exclude/Include– Authors label few examples– Rayyan learns and presents

predictions through a 5-star rating system

• Collaboration– Invite collaborators, viewers, or

translators– Actions by collaborators are trackable

including Exc/Inc conflicts

Beta-testing

• Tested for reliability & reproducibility on• 12 Cochrane Reviews (COHG/Skins/UGPD)• Searches ranging from 101 to 5.4k references• Both new Reviews & updates

• Users/testers : – Cochrane Review Authors, TSCs,

Co-Eds/Information Specialists

A typical use case• Authors UPLOAD searches

• NAVIGATE searches electronically via `word cloud’

• Record, LABEL and SHARE ‘selection’ of studies

• Receive prompts thru the PREDICTION feature

• Invite co-authors, TRANSLATORS to collaborate

• FINALISE included and potentially included studies

• Store as meta-data

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See you at the breaksfor a live demo!