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In Step 4, you will use a citation manager to keep track of all the articles you have found through your literature search. This involves:
This page has information about the different citation managers available at APU. Librarians can recommend citation managers, help you troubleshoot if you run into problems, and provide instructions for using citation managers.
For your PRISMA flow diagram, you will need to record the number of results from each database and remove duplicate citations, then report the number of duplicates removed.
For information on how to document deduplication on your PRISMA flow diagram, visit our guide on Deduplication.
A librarian can advise you on citation management for your review, including:
Here is a comparison chart of some of the Review Tools
The Systematic Review Toolbox (also includes information on Scoping Reviews) is a community-driven, searchable, web-based catalog of tools that support the systematic review process across multiple domains. The resource aims to help reviewers find appropriate tools based on how they provide support for the systematic review process. Users can perform a simple keyword search (i.e. Quick Search) to locate tools, a more detailed search (i.e. Advanced Search) allowing users to select various criteria to find specific types of tools and submit new tools to the database.
Exporting from Library Databases into a Citation Manager:
For both options above, if importing and exporting from the Ebsco or Proquest platforms, be sure you note how many duplicates you have before you do this, since once you export it will export the deduplicated results.
To import into the citation manager, we recommend using the resources for each tool mentioned in the box above "Choose Review Tools".
If you plan to use Covidence,
Note: You can technically export from the databases into Covidence, but this is not recommended as Covidence misses some duplicate articles.