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    235 verified evidence synthesis tools, by category. Search and compare them on the home page.

    Citation tracking

    • Publish or Perish

      Retrieves and analyses academic citation metrics

    • Citationchaser

      Forward and backward citation chasing for reviews

    • CitNetExplorer

      Analyses and visualises citation networks

    • SnowGlobe

      An automated snowball searching tool for citation tracking processes

    Contacting knowledge brokers

    • WhatsApp

      Messaging app used for team coordination

    Critical appraisal

    • CrowdCARE

      Crowdsourced critical appraisal of research

    • Microsoft Excel

      Spreadsheet for tabulating and charting study data

    • Scholarcy

      Summarises papers into structured reading cards

    • Confidence in Network Meta-Analysis (CINeMA)

      Rates the confidence in network meta-analysis results

    • RobotReviewer

      Automated risk-of-bias assessment for trial reports

    • GRADEpro GDT

      Builds summary of findings tables and GRADE assessments

    • Sysrev

      Collaborative document review and data extraction

    Data extraction

    • The ACRES Studio

      AI-assisted extraction of study data into review tables

    • Claude

      General-purpose conversational AI assistant

    • Pitts.ai

      AI assistant for academic reading and writing

    • ContentMine

      Mines facts from the scientific literature at scale

    • Colandr

      Machine-assisted screening for systematic reviews

    • SciSpace

      AI reading assistant for explaining and searching papers

    • SyRF

      Systematic Review Facility (SyRF) is a free online app for performing systematic and meta-analysis of preclinical studies/animal studies. The SyRF app has in-built tools such as a...

    • TEXUS (Table EXtraction and Understanding System)

      Extracts and interprets tables from research papers

    • Dextr

      Assisted data extraction for environmental health reviews

    • Covidence

      Better systematic review management

    • PlotDigitizer

      All-in-One Tool to Extract Data from Graphs, Plots and Images

    • LitStream

      LitStream is a comprehensive tool developed by ICF to support the entire literature review workflow, from initial screening to data extraction and analysis. Designed for systematic...

    • SRDB.PRO

      Systematic review database and workflow manager

    • Cientopolis Scolr

      Cientopolis Scolr is an open-source, web-based software platform designed to support the collaborative creation of literature reviews. Its name is an acronym for Support for Collab...

    • RAPTOR

      RAPTOR, developed using Eclipse and Java, is a tool designed for automating data extraction and cleaning from large batches of RevMan files. For example, RAPTOR can automatically l...

    • Data Abstraction Assistant (DAA)

      Links extracted data back to its place in the source PDF

    • StArt (State of the Art through Systematic Review) tool

      Desktop support for planning and running systematic reviews

    • EvidenceSET
    • Elicit

      AI research assistant for finding and summarising papers

    • SRDR+

      Open systematic review data repository and extraction tool

    • SLR Tool

      Systematic literature review management

    • WebPlotDigitizer

      Extract data from charts

    • MetaReviewer

      Platform for coding and managing meta-analytic data

    • PubData2XL

      Exports PubMed results to Excel

    • Import.io

      Extracts structured data from web pages

    • Graph2Data

      Recovers numeric data from published graphs

    • IRIS.AI

      AI workspace for exploring scientific literature

    • ExaCT

      Extracts trial characteristics from full-text reports

    • PICO Portal

      AI-assisted screening and review management

    • Giotto Compliance

      Manages regulatory compliance documentation

    Data extraction

    • Google NotebookLM

      Google NotebookLM is a retrieval-augmented generative (RAG) AI platform used as the principal tool for data extraction in systematic reviews. It confines generative responses to us...

    Deduplication

    • Zotero

      Your Personal Research Assistant

    • KBibTeX

      BibTeX bibliography editor for KDE

    • RefWorks

      Web-based reference manager for citations and bibliographies

    • Automated Systematic Search Deduplicator (ASySD)

      Automated deduplication of systematic search results

    • Deduklick

      Automated deduplication of bibliographic records

    • Syras

      Collaborative screening with conflict resolution

    Developing a search strategy

    • PICO Portal

      Synthesize evidence at rapid speed

    • Voyant Tools

      Web-based reading and analysis of text corpora

    • Twinword ideas

      Just The Best Keywords

    • AntConc

      Corpus analysis toolkit for concordance and keywords

    • Lingo4G

      Large-scale text clustering and exploration

    • TerMine

      Extracts multi-word technical terms from text

    • PubVenn

      Shows PubMed searches as an interactive Venn diagram

    • SensPrecOptimizer

      Optimises sensitivity and precision trade-offs in screening

    • Wordstat

      Content analysis and text mining for mixed methods

    • VOSviewer

      Builds and visualises bibliometric networks

    • Yale MeSH Analyzer

      Builds a MeSH term grid to compare and refine searches

    • Anne O'Tate

      Summarises and re-ranks PubMed results by topic and author

    • Mapping MEDLINE

      Visualises the topic structure of MEDLINE results

    • Search Strategy Builder

      Teaches and assembles Boolean search strategies

    • PubReMiner

      Detailed Analysis of PubMed Search results

    • Search query generator

      Generates database search queries from a research question

    • WordNet

      Lexical database of English word senses and relations

    • carrot2

      Clusters search results into labelled topics

    • WriteWords

      Word and phrase frequency counter for drafts

    • Text Analyzer

      Analyses text for readability and word frequency

    Dissemination

    • MouseFlow

      Records user sessions and behaviour on a website

    • Mind The Graph

      Creates scientific illustrations and graphical abstracts

    • Stat59

      Web-based meta-analysis and evidence synthesis

    • Table Builder

      Builds structured tables from extracted study data

    • Journal Finder

      Suggests target journals for a manuscript

    • Systematic EvidEnce Disseminator (SEED)

      Developed using the Eclipse integrated development environment and Java programming language, SEED parses XML structure of RevMan files, captures Summary of Findings content, and c...

    • SystematicOnlineLivingEvidenceSummaries (SOLES) using the Interactive shiny app

      Living, searchable summaries of a research field

    Document retrieval

    • Automated Search Helper (ASH)

      Automated support for building literature searches

    • JabRef

      Stay on top of your Literature: The efficient way to collect, organize&discover

    • Paperpile

      The no-fuss reference manager for the web

    • CiteSeerX (Database)

      Open digital library of scientific literature

    • BibDesk

      BibTeX bibliography manager for macOS

    • Textpresso

      Full-text search and information extraction for biology

    • ACTS (Automatic Chinese Text Segmentation System)

      Segments Chinese text into words for analysis

    Evidence synthesis

    • NMAstudio 2.0

      Interactive network meta-analysis and visualisation

    Formulating a research question

    • Nested Knowledge

      Powerful evidence synthesis tools for medical researchers. Accelerate, collaborate, automate and share.

    • The Matching Q-M tool

      The Matching Q-M tool (the Matching policy and practice Questions to Methodological approaches tool) connects two critical parts of evidence support systems:_x000D_ _x000D_ 1. conv...

    Language translation

    • Doc Translator

      Translates documents while keeping their layout

    • DeepL

      Translate texts & full document files instantly

    • Linguamatics

      Global leader in AI-powered translation for life sciences

    • Google translate

      Machine translation across languages

    Protocol development

    • Protocol AI

      Develop the Clinical Trail Protocols of the Future Using AI

    • JBI SUMARI

      End to End Support for developing systematic reviews

    • SESRA

      Web tool for systematic reviews in software engineering

    Question clarification

    • ChatGPT

      General-purpose conversational AI assistant

    • Google Gemini

      General-purpose conversational AI assistant

    Reference management

    • EndNote

      Reference manager for citations and bibliographies

    • Mendeley

      The free all-in-one reference manager

    • WIKINDX

      Self-hosted bibliographic and quotation management

    • refbase

      Web-based reference database for research groups

    • Qiqqa

      Reference manager with PDF annotation and search

    • Citavi

      Your research writing and knowledge engine

    • Lean Library Workspace

      Lean Library Workspace is a citation management software that offers the usual citation management tools, including organizing references, sharing citations with colleagues, readin...

    • Docear

      Mind-mapping reference manager for academic writing

    • Papers

      Make Research Easier with Papers Reference Manager

    Review

    • SciScore

      Enhance rigor and reproducibility in scientific research

    Risk of bias assessment

    • robvis

      Create publication quality risk-of-bias assessment figures

    • ORBIT Matrix Generator

      Assesses outcome reporting bias across a review

    Screening

    • SWIFT Active Screener(ActiveScreener)

      Active-learning screening that reorders records as you decide

    • Rayyan

      Faster Systematic Literature Reviews

    • CADIMA

      Open web tool for review protocols, screening and extraction

    • Abstrackr

      Screen Citations 10X Faster with Abstrackr

    • SWIFT-Review

      Text mining and prioritisation for literature triage

    • LitQuest

      AI-powered platform designed to accelerate the screening of titles and abstracts from systematic literature searches

    • ReViS (Research Visualization System)

      Visualises research evidence and its relationships

    • RobotAnalyst

      Machine-learning prioritisation for abstract screening

    • Screen4Me

      Automated screening service for randomised trials

    • SWIFT Review

      Text mining and prioritisation for literature triage

    • Research Screener

      Speeds up abstract screening

    • Catchii

      Collaborative screening for systematic reviews

    • SWIFT-Active Screener

      Active-learning screening that reorders records as you decide

    • ASReview

      Screen, Interact, Learn , Improve

    • ArticleNet

      The ArticleNet tool is often used for systematic screening in literature reviews or systematic reviews. It's designed to assist in identifying, categorizing, and filtering large se...

    • DoCTER

      Document Classification and Topic Extraction Resource (DoCTER), is a free web-based software application that helps explore and prioritize documents such as abstracts from the scie...

    • Cochrane COVID-19 Study Classifier

      Classifies COVID-19 records for the Cochrane register

    • Parsifal

      Protocol and screening support for software-engineering reviews

    • ReLIS

      Web platform for managing literature reviews

    Screening

    • Meta Llama

      A large language model (LLM) used to automate title/abstract screening in systematic reviews by classifying articles as included or excluded based on their title, abstract, and eli...

    • BibliZap

      Finds related records by citation chasing in both directions

    Search strategy translation

    • Medline Transpose

      Converts MEDLINE searches between Ovid and PubMed syntax

    • Polyglot Search Translator

      Translates a search string between bibliographic databases

    Searching

    • ChatEIDM

      ChatEIDM is an innovative integration of an evidence map and a chatbot, designed to provide policymakers, researchers, and knowledge brokers with well-curated, accurate, and timely...

    • Open Knowledge Maps

      Visual topic map of a research field

    • Trial2rev

      Crowdsourced updating of systematic reviews with new trials

    • BIBOT (BIbliography BOT)

      BIBOT (BIbliography BOT) is a semi-automated tool designed to aid in systematic literature reviews by performing searches and extracting relevant scientific literature.The tool use...

    • ThesisAI

      AI support for thesis writing and structuring

    • Inciteful

      Builds citation networks from a seed paper

    • Perplexity AI

      Conversational search with cited sources

    • EPPI-Reviewer

      End-to-end systematic review management and synthesis

    • PADI-web

      Monitors online news for animal disease outbreaks

    • PubMiner AI

      AI-assisted mining of biomedical literature

    • Litsonar

      A meta-search tool changing the way you discover academic literature

    • CloudSERA

      CloudSERA is a cloud-based web app for systematic reviews. User registration requires Mendeley credentials for bibliographic management. It allows users to query multiple databases...

    • RCT Tagger

      Identifies randomised controlled trials in search results

    • MeSH on Demand

      Suggests MeSH terms from a block of text

    • Living Knowledge System (LKS)

      Keeps an evidence base current as new studies appear

    • Jane

      Finds journals and reviewers matching a title or abstract

    • Cite Space

      Visual analysis of trends and patterns in literature

    • RobotSearch

      Classifies records as randomised trials using machine learning

    • Tree of Science

      Traces a field's literature as a citation tree

    • Ai2

      Open research institute building AI tools for science

    • Heoro (Database)

      Search engine for health economics literature

    • Connected Papers

      Explore academic papers in a visual graph

    • CogTale

      Cognitive Treatments Article Library and Evaluation (CogTale) is an online repository of cognitive intervention studies for older adults. It operates by curating and organizing inf...

    • LiSA (Literature Search Application)

      Literature search support for evidence synthesis

    • Keenious

      Recommends literature from the text you are writing

    • Thalia

      Semantic search over the biomedical literature

    • ResearchRabbit

      Follow your curiosity

    • PubMed by Year

      Normalises PubMed hit counts against publications per year

    • Enago Read

      From Surface-Level Exploration to Critical Reading - All in one Place!

    • LitSuggest

      Recommends relevant PubMed literature from a seed set

    • Leaf

      Cohort discovery and querying of clinical data

    • PDQ-Evidence

      Evidence for health system and public health decisions

    • Dimensions Research GPT

      Answers research questions from the Dimensions database

    • MND-SOLES-CT

      Living evidence summary for motor neurone disease trials

    • CancerEST

      CancerEST was developed as a user-friendly and intuitive web-based tool for the automated identification of candidate cancer makers/target potential as well as to obtain comprehens...

    • Doctor Evidence

      Doctor Evidence is search tool that uses advanced algorithms to perform PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) framework to search, retrieve and extract data from ran...

    • ESuRFr

      ESuRFr (Enhanced Systematic Review Finder) is a tool designed to assist researchers in automating the extraction of citation information, retrieving citation data, and obtaining th...

    • Cochrane Scrapper

      The tool uses web scraping techniques and code based commands to retrieve data from the Cochrane library.

    • APSE

      APSE is a web application for search that recommends PubMed articles relevant to a given article. It automatically extracts keywords from the title and abstract indexed in PubMed t...

    • Sabi Salone

      Sabi Salone: Sierra Leone's first comprehensive evidence platform

    • MetaMap

      Maps biomedical text to UMLS concepts

    • 2DSearch

      Visual, block-based query builder for literature search

    • Paperfetcher

      Automate handsearching and citation searching for your systematic reviews

    • Litmaps

      Discover the world of Scientific Literature

    • Findpapers

      Command-line search across multiple bibliographic databases

    • Chilibot

      Finds relationships between genes and proteins in literature

    • Scite.ai

      Shows whether citations support or contrast a claim

    • DistillerSR

      One Literature Evidence Platform: No Literature Evidence Silos

    • Consensus AI

      Search that answers questions from research findings

    • Digital Repository for Rapid Evidence Synthesis (Dr-RES)

      Repository of rapid evidence syntheses and their outputs

    • Epistemonikos

      Database of systematic reviews and their included studies

    • Coremine Medical

      Explores relationships between biomedical concepts

    • Researchr

      Bibliography sharing and discussion for computer science

    • R Discovery

      Personalised research paper recommendations

    • Cochrane Register of Studies (CRS)

      Cochrane's register of studies and search records

    Searching

    • MetaBUS

      MetaBUS is a search engine implementing a taxonomy-based hierarchical keyword structure and Boolean logic to support structured data acquisition for meta-analysis, standardizing qu...

    Searching for evidence

    • OpenRead

      OpenRead is an AI research platform with access to over 300 million papers with AI analysis for scientific discovery, market research, competitive intelligence, policy analysis, an...

    Synthesis/analysis

    • Humata

      Humata is an AI-powered document analysis and research platform that lets you chat with files, PDFs, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, web pages, and Yo...

    • Meta-Sen

      Sensitivity analysis for meta-analytic results

    • MetaLight

      Teaching-oriented tool for running simple meta-analyses

    • AltairĀ® RapidMiner

      Visual workflows for data science and text mining

    • gretl

      Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library

    • SPSS

      Statistical analysis software for the social sciences

    • Camarades Meta-analysis tool

      Meta-analysis for preclinical animal studies

    • PyMeta

      Python-based meta-analysis with forest and funnel plots

    • MetaDTA

      Meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies

    • Meta-Analysis of Gene Expression (MAGE)

      Meta-analysis across gene expression datasets

    • Comprehensive Meta-Analysis (CMA)

      Commercial meta-analysis software with a spreadsheet interface

    • metaHUN

      metaHUN is a web-based free tool designed for conducting meta-analysis. Users can upload datasets in various formats (txt, csv, xls, xlsx, sav) to analyze their data. The tool cons...

    • MetaInsight

      Web app for network meta-analysis

    • NVivo

      Ask more from your data with the depth and power of Nvivo

    • Sci2 Tool

      A Tool for Science of Science Research &Practice

    • Atlas.ti

      Qualitative analysis of text, audio and video

    • Meta-Essentials

      Meta-analysis workbooks for Excel

    • Stata

      The complete statistical software for data science

    • OpenMEE

      Meta-analysis for ecology and evolutionary biology

    • Gephi

      Interactive visualisation and exploration of networks

    • Leximancer

      Concept mapping and thematic analysis of text

    • CRISTA

      CRISTA adopts a visual metaphor, called treemap [2], that represents code blocks as nested rectangles and allows the reader to gain a global view of the code structure.

    • Effect size calculator

      Converts study statistics into standardised effect sizes

    • The Literature: Realtime PubMed Analysis

      Real-time analysis of newly published PubMed records

    • R

      Programming language and environment for statistics

    • MAVIS

      Point-and-click meta-analysis built on R

    • Insight

      AI-assisted analysis of research evidence

    • Trial Sequential Analysis (TSA)

      Assesses whether a meta-analysis has enough information

    • Open Meta-Analyst

      Open-source meta-analysis with a graphical interface

    • MA-cont: pre/post effect size

      Effect sizes for continuous pre/post outcomes

    • AutoMeta

      Automated extraction and meta-analysis of study results

    • MaxQDA

      Streamline your data analysis: automatic transcription, powerful analysis tools, ease of use, and smart AI integration

    • RevMan (Review Manager)

      Streamline your systematic reviews and meta-analyses with Cochrane's Review Manager (RevMan)

    • MetaGenyo

      Meta-analysis of genetic association studies

    • Dynamic Interactive Argumentation Trees (DIAeT)

      Maps arguments and evidence as an interactive tree

    Text annotation

    • UDPipe

      Tokenising, tagging and parsing of natural language

    • Taguette

      Free, open-source qualitative coding of documents

    • GENIA tagger

      Part-of-speech tagging for biomedical text

    • Brat Rapid Annotation

      Browser-based annotation of text corpora

    Writing

    • iThenticate

      Publish with confidence

    • Paperpal

      Academic Writing Assistant

    • QuillBot

      Your AI-Powered Writing Assitant

    • ReportGPT

      Advance your Research Paper Writing with AI using ReportGPT

    • MAGICapp

      Authoring and publishing of evidence-based guidelines

    • Methods Wizard

      Guides methodological choices for a systematic review

    • Virtual Writing Tutor

      Checks grammar and academic style in writing

    • ArticleRewriter

      Rewrites and paraphrases passages of text

    • LaTeX

      Typesetting system for technical and scientific documents