Systematic Review
Evidence synthesis · est. 2025
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Glossary
The words you'll see in Systematic Review and across your review — defined plainly.
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Audit trail
Per-row record of how a PDF was retrieved.
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ClinicalTrials.gov
US trial registry; source of NCT IDs.
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Covidence
Screening tool. Exports CSV for our pipeline.
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DOI
Digital Object Identifier — a permanent article ID.
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EndNote
Reference manager. Imports our XML export.
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Europe PMC
European open biomedical literature index.
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Inclusion / exclusion criteria
Rules deciding which studies enter your review.
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NCT ID
ClinicalTrials.gov registration number.
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Open access (OA)
Freely readable, legally redistributable full text.
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PMCID
PubMed Central article ID.
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PRISMA
Reporting checklist + flow diagram for reviews.
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PubMed
NIH literature search; queried via E-utilities.
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Resolver waterfall
Deterministic order: Unpaywall → Europe PMC → PMC.
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Unpaywall
Open API mapping DOIs to legal OA links.
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Zotero
Open-source reference manager. Reads EndNote XML.
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