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What is study-screener.com?

Study Screener is a title/abstract screening tool for systematic reviews. It supports manual screening on the free plan and optional AI-assisted screening billed in credits. It is built as a modern alternative to tools such as Rayyan and Covidence for this screening stage — not as a full-text screening or data-extraction platform.

What you can do today:

  • Upload RIS or PubMed/MEDLINE files (multiple database exports can be combined)
  • Screen studies manually with include / maybe / exclude decisions
  • Optionally run AI screening with a 20-study preflight, rationales, and confidence scores
  • Invite reviewers for blinded dual screening and resolve disagreements
  • Export RIS, CSV, a signed AI audit log, and PRISMA diagrams

Creating Your First Project

1

Sign up or log in

Create an account with Google or email. Confirm your email before uploading files.

2

Upload your citation file(s)

RIS from PubMed, Embase, Zotero, EndNote, or Mendeley, or a PubMed/MEDLINE .txt export. You can also import a Zotero collection from the red Z in the left panel. Up to 50MB total. Duplicate DOI or title/year matches are combined. Walkthrough: How to import from Zotero, EndNote, or a RIS file.

3

Choose how to screen

Manual screening is available on the free plan. AI screening uses one credit per successfully screened abstract and starts with a 20-study sample when the set is larger than 20.

4

Review, export, and continue

Override uncertain AI calls, then click Continue to Evidence Table Builder to send your included studies directly to ETB. Sign in there if needed, then find or upload the study PDFs. You can also export RIS/CSV if preferred.