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

Information on how to conduct evidence syntheses, including systematic reviews and scoping reviews, in the health sciences.

Using Citation Management Software In Evidence Syntheses

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.