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By Liv Bjerge Laursen and Lotte Risbæk Thomsen

 

Doing systematic literature reviews has gained a foothold in business management research in recent years. In recognition of this development, the library has taken a trial license for Covidence, an easy-to-use solution created with the sole purpose of supporting the review process. Covidence is originally designed for full systematic literature reviews but is also a valuable help when doing other types of reviews.

Covidence can help you with:

  • Removing duplicates: If you run multiple searches in one database or search multiple databases, you will most likely wind up with duplicates. By uploading your results to Covidence, such duplicates will be removed, and the software will keep a record of how much has been removed and what has been removed to make sure you are always on top of the process.
  • Keeping a record of your searches: you can save a copy of your search strings in Covidence, both for reuse and for reporting purposes.
  • Supporting the screening process: You can set up criteria for inclusion and exclusion, get Covidence to highlight keywords in green or red to speed up screening, tag references by simply clicking Yes/No/Maybe, and, if you are more than one reviewer, resolve any inter-reviewer conflicts.
  • Upload of pdf-files: After an initial screening based on title, abstract, and keywords, you can upload the PDF-files of the remaining references and screen content based on full text.
  • Data extraction: Once you have settled on your final pick of articles, you can set up an extraction form to collect relevant information and/or data from the articles selected. In turn, you can export this collection for further processing.
  • Prisma diagram: When you are done, a Prisma diagram depicting your review process will be available for inclusion in your paper.
  • Collaboration is easy: Invite colleagues from CBS and beyond to join in the review process.

For access to Covidence, please contact review@cbs.dk

NB. Covidence is part of our general support for literature reviews. We can also help you with validating your research process and more. Check out CBSshare for more details.