Covidence
The world's leading software for managing and streamlining your systematic review.
Executive Summary
Covidence is a non-profit SaaS platform designed to streamline the systematic review process from reference import to data extraction. It is used by researchers, clinicians, students, and librarians globally to produce high-quality evidence faster. The platform offers features like AI-powered deduplication and screening, collaborative tools, and PRISMA-aligned reporting, significantly reducing review time and enhancing accuracy.
Use Cases
- Conducting Systematic Reviews
- Performing Meta-Analyses
- Developing Clinical Guidelines
- Executing Scoping Reviews
- Managing Living Guidelines
- Evidence-Based Decision Making
Features
Visibility
- PRISMA Flow Diagram Generation: Automatically creates PRISMA flow diagrams, visualizing the study selection process and ensuring reporting transparency.
- Real-time Progress Tracking: Provides dashboards to monitor the status of reviews, individual reviewer progress, and overall project timelines.
- Customizable Study Tags: Allows users to create and apply custom tags to studies for flexible organization, filtering, and categorization throughout the review.
- Inter-rater Reliability Export: Offers an export feature for screening decisions to calculate inter-rater reliability, aiding in quality assurance and consensus building.
Intelligence
- AI-Powered Deduplication: Automatically identifies and removes duplicate references upon import, saving significant manual effort and ensuring a clean dataset.
- Machine Learning for Relevancy Sorting: Utilizes machine learning to sort references by their predicted relevance, accelerating the screening process by prioritizing potentially important studies.
- Automated Screening Assistance: Supports automated exclusion of studies (e.g., non-RCTs in medical sciences) and highlights keywords to streamline the screening process based on protocol and voting behavior.
- Customizable Data Extraction Templates: Provides flexible templates for data extraction, allowing users to tailor fields to their specific review type (intervention or non-intervention) and research questions.
Support
- 24/7 Online Technical Support: Offers round-the-clock support from product experts and seasoned reviewers to assist users with any technical or workflow-related queries.
- Comprehensive Knowledge Base: Provides an extensive online knowledge base with articles, guides, and FAQs to help users navigate the platform and optimize their review process.
- Webinars and Tutorials: Regularly hosts webinars and provides video tutorials covering various aspects of using Covidence, from basic setup to advanced features.
- Dedicated Community Team: A global team continuously works on improving the product and providing technical support to its user community.
Technical Specifications
- Architecture
- Cloud-native SaaS
- Deployment
- Cloud/SaaS
- Authentication
- Username/password, with support for organizational Single Sign-On (SSO) for institutional users.
- API Available
- No
- MCP Server
- No
Infrastructure
- Zitcom (Denmark)
AI/ML Stack
- NLP
- Machine Learning
Integrations
- EndNote
- Mendeley
- Zotero
- RevMan
- Risk of Bias Tools
Security & Compliance
Certifications: ISO 27001 (hosting provider)
Encryption: 128-bit SSL encryption in transit, industry-standard encryption for data at rest.
Pricing
- Model
- Per review (individual/package) or Tiered organizational subscription
- Starting Price
- Single review: $339 USD/year; Package (up to 3 reviews): $907 USD/year; Organizations: Contact sales
- Target Customer
- Solo researchers, Small teams, Academic institutions, Hospitals, Societies
- Contract Type
- Annual
- Free Trial
- Yes, Varies, communicated at activation (credit card required)
About Covidence
Covidence is a non-profit SaaS enterprise, established in 2014, that provides a web-based platform to streamline systematic reviews by improving efficiency in citation screening, full-text review, risk of bias assessment, and data extraction. It is utilized by over 450 leading institutions worldwide, including universities, societies, and hospitals, and is recognized as the world's largest systematic review community.