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On this page of the research guide, you will learn:

Once you've engaged with all the content on this page, you should:

Rayyan is a user-friendly tool which enables a single person or a team to perform masked screening of references for evidence synthesis projects. It has some excellent features, especially if you're working with a large set of results. Rayyan is designed for screening, not for citation management or citing while writing! This is an optional tool which may speed up your screening process, and you would use it in conjunction with a citation management tool like RefWorks or Zotero.

Rayyan allows you to:

• Highlight keywords to help you quickly identify important information in references.
• Rapidly mark references for inclusion or exclusion, including labeling them with custom reasons.
• Use machine learning and your existing screening decisions to sort unscreened items based on likely relevance.

To create your account, choose the Sign-Up link at the top of the page.

Select the Free account option and complete the sign-up process. Rayyan does offer subscriptions, but a free account is sufficient for many people's needs.

Watch the video below to learn how to create a new Rayyan project, import references from your citation manager, use Rayyan to screen those references, and finally export them back into your citation manager.

If you're not yet sure if you'd like to use Rayyan, you can test drive it using the RIS file in this box, below the video.

Have questions about using Rayyan? Check out their help documentation! If you like to reduce your reliance on your mouse and speed up some processes, check out the list of keyboard shortcuts, too.

Have you:

Then you're ready to move on to the final page of this guide, Congratulations & Next Steps!