Evidence Syntheses (Scoping, systematic, & other types of reviews)

It is not unusual to collect thousands of articles as a result of your literature searches.  Citation management software, such as EndNote, Mendeley, or Zotero, are useful in the evidence synthesis process because they help you to easily 

• collect & organize references from a variety of databases &
• check for duplicate citations. (It is important during an evidence synthesis to not count duplicate articles.)
  • This can also be done in a screening program such as Covidence.

Find more information about citation tools in this research guide.

We strongly recommend that you use a program such as Covidence for screening articles for your project. It is possible to screen a small number of articles in a citation manager, but a program that has been developed for the purpose will make the process much easier.