literature reviews in Business

Covidence Help Centre - step-by step training

Step-by-step webinar series - each section in detail

🚀 Step 1: Setting up the review in Covidence - Click here to watch a recent recording. 

🤔 Step 2: Screening in Covidence:  A beginners Guide - Click here to watch a recent recording. 

📚 Step 3: Full text retrieval in Covidence Click here to watch a recent recording. 

📂 Step 4: Extracting data and assessing quality (Extraction 1) - TBC

Extracting data and assessing quality (Extraction 2) - Click here to watch a recent recording.

⬇️ Step 5: Exporting data (Extraction 1) in Covidence - Click here to watch a recent recording.

Exporting data (Extraction 2) in Covidence - TBC                   

📊 Step 6: PRISMA Reporting and Covidence - Click here to watch a recent recording. 

Are you using EndNote or another bibliographic software to manage references? These tools interface well with Covidence.

In Covidence you can:

• Import references - Covidence works seamlessly with your favourite reference managers like EndNote, Zotero, Refworks, Mendeley or any tool that support RIS, CSV or PubMed XML formats. Covidence can automatically remove duplicates for you.
• Screen title and abstract - Breeze through screening with keyword highlighting and a lightning quick interface. Covidence keeps full records of who voted and supports single or dual screeners.
• Bulk PDF import - Transfer PDFs stored in your reference manager to Covidence in a few clicks.
• Screen full text - Decide quickly on studies in full text. Capture reasons for exclusion and any notes so you can resolve any disagreements quickly, with a click of a button.
• Create forms - Be in control and stay focused on your PICO question. Customisable extraction forms means you only spend time extracting what you need.
• Customise risk of bias - Automatically populate your risk of bias tables by highlighting and commenting on text directly in your PDF.
• Conduct data extraction - Extract data efficiently with a side-by-side view of your customised form and PDF. Then, when you are done, easily compare your form with other reviewers.
• Export - Covidence exports to all the common formats so you can continue your review in your preferred software.
• Collaborate - You can invite other reviewers (including external colleagues) to work with you on the project.

A smart and effective method for undertaking literature reviews particularly for research students and others new to a discipline.

"Narrative methods that are commonly used in many research theses, rely on the expertise and experience of the author, making them challenging for novices. In contrast, the method we use and recommend involves systematically searching the literature using online database and other sources to find all relevant papers that fit specific criteria (systematically identifying the literature), entering information about each study into a personal database, then compiling tables that summarise the current status of the literature (quantifying the literature). The results are reliable, quantifiable and reproducible.

Using this method, it’s also possible to determine if there are suitable datasets for meta-analysis. By mapping the literature we can not only identify what is known, but also, but where there are gaps: a critical issue in advancing research and designing PhD research programs."