Overview
Systematic review citation management fails when it is treated as a larger version of regular citation management. A systematic review requires tracking where each citation came from, why it was included or excluded, who made the screening decision, and when — none of which is captured by standard reference managers. Without this audit trail, the review is not reproducible and will not pass peer review.
The Systematic Review Citation Protocol Prompt builds a citation tracking system that meets PRISMA reporting standards — documenting the search strategy, tracking duplicates across databases, recording screening decisions with justifications, and producing the flow diagram that journals require.
What you get: - PRISMA-compliant tracking system: the metadata fields that document the review process - Multi-database search protocol: how to search and combine results without creating duplicates - Duplicate detection rules: the algorithm that identifies duplicates across different citation formats - Screening decision documentation: the format that records inclusion/exclusion decisions with justifications - Inter-rater reliability tracking: how to measure and report agreement between screeners - PRISMA flow diagram generation: the data export that produces the required reporting diagram
Built for: researchers conducting systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and scoping reviews in any discipline.