2 free tools on this site · Literature review matrix

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One product, three jobs

Run the search. Record the decision. Defend the review.

Two worksheets a literature review actually needs, free on the page, and a record behind them for the day somebody asks how the twenty-eight were chosen.

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Calibvo Pro is $19 per month for one reviewer, billed monthly.

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free tools on this site
Literature reviews only
Tools

One product, three jobs

What you searched. What you decided. What you pulled out.

Searches
Every search, with what it returned The database, the string, the date and the number of records, so the counts in your flow diagram come from somewhere.
Decisions
Include or exclude, with the reason One decision per record against your own criteria, kept where a second reviewer and a supervisor can both read it.
Extraction
The matrix, and what fed it The columns you decided to pull from every source, so the synthesis is a reading across a table rather than a memory of PDFs.

Why not just a reference manager?

A reference manager holds citations and PDFs beautifully and knows nothing about your method. Keep it. This is the layer it has no field for.

What it stores
Calibvo Searches, screening decisions with reasons, and extracted data
A reference managerCitations, PDFs, tags and folders
Why a record was excluded
Calibvo A reason against the record, which is what a flow diagram counts
A reference managerA folder called excluded, if you made one
Two reviewers screening the same set
Calibvo Both sets of decisions kept, and where they disagreed
A reference managerA shared library, and a conversation
Built for
Calibvo Producing a review you can be asked to justify
A reference managerCiting what you have already decided to cite

We do not print other tools' prices here, because several quote per institution after a conversation and a figure we cannot check is not evidence. Our own is on the page: $19 a month for one reviewer, cancel when the review is submitted. Keep your reference manager either way; this is not a replacement for one.

Worksheets for the review itself

Free to use. No account, no card, no sign-up.

Toolsanswers they give backFree, on the worked example
Literature review matrix 15.1 Hours of extraction Free
Software for literature review 28 Studies included Free

Calibvo Pro keeps the searches, the screening decisions and the extraction the matrix was built from

The arithmetic is free for good. Pro is what happens after it: the searches you ran, the records each returned, the include and exclude decision on every one with its reason, and the extraction the matrix was built from.

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