Recording and Evaluation

Record your search activities including search strategy, search terms, search options, search filters and search operators.

• Search tracker
  Customize this search tracker (Excel sheet). Copy and paste the exact search query in the Excel workbook to record search activity. Additionally, you record which database or search system you used, together with the filters you applied and the number of results generated by your search.

• Checklist for searching
  The PRISMA extension for searching was published in 2021. The checklist includes 16 reporting items, each of which is detailed with exemplar reporting and Rationale.

• Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies (PRESS)
  Guideline for Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies (PRESS) for systematic reviews (SRs)g and deduplication

Managing

Gather, store and organise your records.

• Data Management Plan Template: Systematic Reviews
  by H. Ganshorn; Z. Premji; P. E. Ronksley (2021)

• Managing and Coding References for Systematic Reviews and Scoping Reviews in EndNote
  by M. D. J. Peters (2017)

Deduplication

Deduplicate records from multiple database searches and other information sources.

• Amsterdam Efficient Deduplication (AED) method
  by R. Otten et al (2019)

• De-duplication of database search results for systematic reviews in EndNote
  by W. M. Bramer et al (2016)

Deduplication using Zotero
by J. Staaks.