Reading your results

The results page

An abstract screening has five tabs: Breakdown, Papers, Criteria, Run log and Sharing. It opens on Breakdown.

Breakdown

The Breakdown tab contains two charts. Included and excluded shows the number of papers in each decision category. Why papers were excluded groups papers by their most relevant exclusion criterion, with the most common reason first.

Select Clusters or Bars to change the chart layout. For large reviews, a single dot represents multiple papers; the chart states how many. Each label shows the exact paper count.

Papers

The Papers tab shows the total number of papers, inclusion and exclusion counts, and workload reduction. It also includes Record Accounting totals for your PRISMA diagram and a table of all papers.

Each row shows the paper's Decision, Label and Reasoning. The label is either Included or the most relevant exclusion criterion. Select a row to view more detail.

Downloads

Download Included, Excluded, All, or only the papers you've selected, as CSV, RIS or BibTeX.

CSV downloads include Title, Authors, Year, DOI, Abstract, Decision, Label, Reasoning and Screened At. RIS and BibTeX downloads include the decision, label and reasoning in each record's note, so you can retain this information when importing into Zotero, EndNote or Mendeley.