About Rayyan

Rayyan is a free, web-based tool that lets you screen your references for systematic reviews or other large literature reviews. Rayyan facilitates collaboration by allowing multiple people to screen the same references independently (blinded). You can use Rayyan after you have performed your literature search and collected the results in EndNote or Zotero.

Published 28. Sep. 2020. Updated on 02. Mar. 2026

Classes and support in Rayyan

Due to limited interest from English speakers we are not scheduling Rayyan webinars in English.

If you are part of a group of people who would like to schedule a webinar, please contact Elisabeth Molland. We can also provide individual support.

Create a user in Rayyan

To start using Rayyan you first have to create a user.

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More about Rayyan

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Classes from the library

Workshop in Rayyan

In this course you will learn all the basic skills in Rayyan. We will provide you with a set of references that you can use for the learning activities, so you do not have to prepare your own EndNote or Zotero library.

Target audience: master students, PhD candidates and staff at UiS and SUS Equipment: Laptop with a user in Rayyan Prior knowledge needed: Knowledge on how to us reference managing tool like EndNote or Zotero Teaching method: Workshop

After the course you should know how to:

Create a review in Rayyan
Import references from a reference manager such as EndNote or Zotero
Invite a collaborator to work on a Rayyan project together with you
Switch blinding on and off
Identify the references for which you and your collaborator have made conflicting decisions
Export all selected references for further processing in other software
Trust that you have a good tool for working on reviews