Hillary,
I would add 2a: Rayyan will find additional duplicates, but many of them will be false dups because Rayyan seems to match for dups using the beginning of the title (i.e., articles that are Part 1, Part 2, or have a one or two word difference toward the end of the title, will show up as dups). So someone on the team should take care of Rayyan's suggested duplicates (and who knows, Rayyan might catch something....but Rayyan has never caught a true duplicate if I used Bramer's method in Endnote to remove duplicates).
For #4, yes, export "included" records to citation manager and work on obtaining the PDFs. If there is a group citation manager library, everyone can access the PDFs from there (I've never attempted adding PDFs back into Rayyan). ALSO: I recommend that the team create a NEW Rayyan project with the same exported records for full-text screening.
^^^This method worked well with a large team with many students (i.e., doing title-abstract screening in one Rayyan project, then doing full-text screening in a separate Rayyan project, and THEN doing the data extraction). I worked with another, more advanced team of researchers, and that group's choice was to put all the PDFs included after TI-AB screening into a shared folder, and then the team members conducted full-text screening AND data extraction in one step.
Looking forward to reading other responses.
Jane
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Jane Yatcilla
Health & Life Sciences Information Specialist
Purdue University Libraries
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Original Message:
Sent: Jun 28, 2021 08:13 AM
From: Hilary Kraus
Subject: workflow for using Rayyan
Hi, all,
I have faculty and students who are starting to use Rayyan for their systematic review screening, and looking for guidance from me. My initial understanding of a feasible workflow would be something like this, and would take place after they'd done all their searches, and imported all the records into a citation manager (RefWorks, generally, although some may be using Zotero):
- Complete the deduplication process within their citation manager.
- Import the deduplicated set into Rayyan.
- Complete all screening.
- Export the set of records they've selected for inclusion into a separate RefWorks project library or a Zotero Group (to ensure it remains walled off from their original search set and/or any other projects they may be working on).
It's mainly step 4 I'm trying to confirm. If you use Rayyan for screening, is this the process you'd use? I'm open to any recommendations you may have!
Thanks,
Hilary
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Hilary Kraus
hilary.kraus@uconn.edu
Research Services Librarian
University of Connecticut
She/Her/Hers
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