Reference Management
Here is a list of tools & software to support different stages of your review. Please note that librarians do not provide support for the resources listed below.
Overall Review Software
- Rayyan: Free version and paid subscription options. Helpful in sorting citations.
- colandr: Free software; especially helpful in sorting citations
- EPPI-Reviewer: Fee-based via monthly subscription
- Covidence: Premiere software for managing the overall process of systematic or scoping reviews or meta-analyses. It needs a subscription.
Meta-analysis
- MetaLight: Free; from EPPI Centre
- Comprehensive Meta-Analysis: Fee-based
- Mix 2.0: Free Lite version. Excel add-on.
- Practical Meta-Analysis Effect Size Calculator: Free. From Campbell Collaboration.
- How to calculate effect sizes from published research: A simplified methodology, Will Thalheimer & Samantha Cook (2009).
Other Software
- Google Forms: Resource for creating the coding form.
- PRISMA Flow Diagram Generator: Online tool to generate a PRISMA flow diagram. Based on PRISMA 2009 Statement.