Rayyan

Rayyan is the leading AI-powered platform designed specifically to streamline and accelerate systematic reviews and comprehensive literature syntheses. Trusted by over 800,000 researchers worldwide, it addresses the critical challenge of manual screening and data management, dramatically reducing the time spent on review preparation and execution. Rayyan provides a centralized, collaborative environment where accuracy and efficiency are paramount, allowing you to move quickly from data collection to synthesis.

Key Features

Rayyan integrates powerful automation and structured tools to transform the systematic review workflow, ensuring both speed and methodological rigor.

📱 Accelerated AI Screening & Mobile Access

Rayyan’s proprietary AI engine intelligently assists in the screening process, using machine learning to prioritize relevant articles and significantly reduce the manual workload. This capability is proven to cut screening time by up to 90%. Additionally, the dedicated mobile app allows you to screen articles and make inclusion/exclusion decisions anytime, anywhere, maximizing productivity during traditionally unproductive downtime.

🧼 Advanced Deduplication and Data Cleanup

Automatically identify and remove duplicate references across your imported datasets using Rayyan’s sophisticated deduplication feature. This tool is essential for maintaining a clean, organized review data set from the start, improving accuracy and guaranteeing that your team focuses only on unique, relevant studies rather than wasting hours reviewing the same article multiple times.

📊 Structured Review Management (PICO & Filters)

Enhance the methodological rigor of your review by structuring your research questions using the integrated PICO framework (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome). This functionality, combined with customizable filters, bulk actions (tagging, including, or excluding studies), and keyboard shortcuts, allows researchers to quickly refine search results and efficiently manage large volumes of studies.

✅ Team Collaboration and PRISMA Compliance

Manage access, define roles, and organize reviews across multiple teams within a centralized, customizable workbench. Beyond management, Rayyan supports the creation of clear, transparent PRISMA flow diagrams, ensuring your systematic review adheres to recognized reporting guidelines and significantly enhances the reproducibility of your research.

Use Cases

Rayyan helps researchers in diverse fields achieve rapid, high-quality results across various stages of the review process.

1. Rapid Project Launch and Preparation: Instead of manually cleaning data, you can export search results from multiple sources (like PubMed, Zotero, or EndNote) and import them directly into Rayyan. The system instantly runs the advanced deduplication process, allowing you to begin the critical screening phase with clean data in minutes, not hours.
2. Efficient Collaborative Screening: When working with a team, Rayyan supports a blinded review process, where reviewers independently assess titles and abstracts. The platform tracks progress and exclusion reasons in real-time, facilitating efficient conflict resolution and ensuring methodological transparency, which is crucial for high-impact publications.
3. Ensuring Reporting Standards: As you finalize your review, Rayyan automatically generates a PRISMA flow diagram based on your inclusion and exclusion decisions. This built-in compliance tool saves significant time in the reporting phase, ensuring your published methodology is clear, transparent, and meets the standards required by major journals.

Why Choose Rayyan?

Rayyan is built specifically for the systematic review workflow, providing targeted tools that deliver measurable results and support high-stakes academic and clinical research.

• Quantifiable Time Savings: The integration of AI for screening and the systematic deduplication feature provides a demonstrable efficiency gain, with users reporting up to a 90% reduction in screening time. This allows researchers to allocate more time to analysis and writing.
• Seamless Data Ecosystem Integration: Rayyan supports direct data import from virtually all major research management tools and databases, including Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote, PubMed, and Google Scholar. You can start your review immediately without complex data conversion or cleanup steps.
• Expertly Designed Management Tools: The platform offers a centralized, customizable workbench that goes beyond simple storage. Features like creating multiple teams, managing specific user roles and access, and tracking detailed exclusion reasons ensure secure, effective, and methodologically sound cooperative work.

Conclusion

Rayyan transforms the traditionally laborious systematic review into an efficient, collaborative, and highly accurate process. By integrating powerful AI tools with robust management features, you gain valuable time back for analysis and synthesis. Rayyan is your authoritative partner in conducting rigorous literature reviews with confidence and speed.