A guide to Sysrev for collaborative literature and document reviews

You can export your results in mainly two formats:

Articles (Endnote XML): This is a bibliographic data format that captures information like the title, abstract, author names, DOI and other bibliographic metadata that you might have imported into your project. You can use this filetype with citation management software like Endnote and Zotero.

Articles and Answers (Excel): This option exports a multi-tabbed Excel file containing detailed information about user and article-level label responses. Specifically, the Excel tabs contain:

• Articles: Unique article IDs assigned by Sysrev, a URL to the article in your Sysrev project and some basic information about the article (e.g., Title, publication year, Authors)
• User Answers: Each row contains all of the label responses for each article for each reviwer
• Auto Answers: Contains all label answers from the auto-labeller (if used)
• Article Answers: Each row contains a pipe-delimited list of reviewers and their label answers for each article
• Annotations: Article annotations (if used)

One of the great features of Sysrev is the ability to access a detailed record of all label data and reviewer decisions in a format that can be analyzed by other external programs like R, Python and Excel. You can also export the bibliographic metadata for import into programs like Endnote and Zotero.

To export data from Sysrev, first go to the Articles tab and apply any filters needed to obtain the subject of records that you'd like to export, or apply no filters to export all of the records. For more about using filters, visit the filters tab in this guide.

Once you have the set of records you want to export, scroll down to find the Export options on the left hand side as shown. Choose the export type you want, click on it and click the blue Generate button (not shown). A link to download your results will appear in the Export box shortly.