Rayyan is an AI-assisted collaboration platform designed for researchers to efficiently manage and conduct systematic literature reviews. It streamlines the review process by enabling real-time collaboration, advanced filtering, and automated deduplication, significantly reducing the time researchers spend on literature screening and decision-making.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Systematic literature reviews are time-consuming and complex, often requiring researchers to manually screen thousands of articles. Traditional methods lack efficient collaboration tools and automated processes, leading to duplicated efforts and increased review times.
Solution
Rayyan is a web and mobile platform designed to streamline and accelerate the systematic literature review process using AI-powered assistance. The platform enables researchers to collaborate in real-time, manage and organize their reviews, and automate key tasks such as deduplication and relevance ranking. By providing advanced filtering, highlighting, and decision-making tools, Rayyan significantly reduces the time and effort required to conduct comprehensive literature reviews. The platform's intelligent algorithms learn from user decisions to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the review process, ensuring researchers can quickly identify relevant studies and make informed decisions.
Target Audience
Rayyan targets researchers, students, and librarians involved in conducting systematic literature reviews across various disciplines and industry sectors.
Features
- Real-time collaboration features for distributed research teams
- Automated deduplication to eliminate redundant articles
- 5-star relevance ranking to prioritize the most relevant studies
- Advanced filtering facets to refine search results
- PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) highlights and filters
- PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) support
- Mobile app access for on-the-go review and decision-making
- Auto-resolver for identifying and resolving inconsistencies
- Management console for monitoring and managing users, searches, reviews, and full texts (Teams+ and Enterprise plans)
- Integration with Mendeley for direct import of references