Rayyan

Research applicability

Rayyan supports collaborative review screening, deduplication and relevance ranking learned from reviewer decisions.

Getting started

Define inclusion/exclusion criteria, import a small reference set, check duplicates and test independent screening before a full review.

Maintenance

Current operational availability and maintenance were not tested; this recommendation rests on the dated source snapshot.

License

Licensing, service terms and rights to input data must be checked before adoption; no independent license audit performed.

Workflow & human oversight

L2 describes the documented human-supervised sequence, not autonomous research. Humans supply inputs, check intermediate results and approve conclusions.

Workflow level is not an evidence score; higher is not better evidence.

Approach

Its getting-started guide describes reference import, deduplication, team screening, extraction, risk-of-bias assessment and export.

Limitations

Feature guide only; no screening sensitivity or review-quality outcomes checked. Some advanced functions depend on plan or institutional contract. Humans must own eligibility decisions and resolve disagreements.

Reproducibility

Reviewed a stored primary-source extract accessed 2026-10-15. No software, model or claimed outcome was independently reproduced.

Adoption requirements

Rayyan access, exported reference records, eligibility criteria and an agreed team coding scheme.