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Synthesis applies the latest in automation and enhanced analytic functionality to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of conducting literature reviews...

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Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia.

It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day.

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  • Step 1 - Create a Project

    Automatically de-duplicates references as they are being imported in a manner of minutes. With an external validated Sensitivity (Se) of 98% and Specificity (Sp) of 99%.

  • Step 2 - Search Online and Retrieve the References

    The ability to quickly organize your references into Topics using Artificial Intelligence or Visually view the Title or Abstracts as Word Clouds for a more clear understanding.

  • Step 3 - Familiarize Yourself with the Literature

    Downloads the PDFs that you have access to, either through open-access or institutional subscription, on average 20 seconds per article.

  • Step 4 - Apply Inclusion Exclusion Criteria to the References

    The ability to search in real-time for keywords or phrases through the abstracts or full-text PDFs and then tag these references for future analysis.

  • Step 5 - Create Meta Data from the References

    The ability to search in real-time for keywords or phrases through the abstracts or full-text PDFs and then tag these references for future analysis.

  • Step 6 - Chart the Meta Data

    The ability to search in real-time for keywords or phrases through the abstracts or full-text PDFs and then tag these references for future analysis.

  • Step 7 - Automatically Download the PDFs for Included References

    The ability to Right-Click on a Column and quickly produce a line, bar, pie, stacked bar, or stacked area chart for quickly understanding trends and frequencies.

Online Tutorials

Tutorials available on YouTube

  • Synthesis Info - Hints and Tips

    Project Preferences (Change where Projects are saved, i.e. DropBox), Project Settings (Highlight Keywords), Include/Excluded, Backup Projects.

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  • Synthesis Info - Dual Reviewers

    Provides an introduction on how to work with dual reviewers.

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  • Synthesis Info - Directories

    Information about where Synthesis saves Project files.

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  • Synthesis Info - Scan PDFs and Extract Images

    Synthesis can check to see if a PDF has already been downloaded by another Project. Additionally, Synthesis can extract images from all the PDFs.

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  • Synthesis Info - Grey Literature

    How to manage Grey Literature within Synthesis.

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  • Synthesis Info - Sample Columns and Kappa Scores

    How to provide a random sample of the literature and work with Kappa Scores.

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  • Synthesis Info - Tabs

    Explanation of what the various Tabs in Synthesis do. Papers, Stats, Bibliography, Topic Clustering, Word Clouds, and Preferences.

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  • Synthesis Info - Custom Columns and Exporting CSV

    Synthesis allows Custom Columns to be created for enhanced data collection. These can then be exported to a CSV file.

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  • Synthesis Info - Downloading Papers

    Information about downloading PDFs.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • After The License Expires

    Synthesis will still continue to function, however, it will be in Trial mode. Which means you can still continue to work with your existing projects, but any new projects will only be able to import 50 references.

  • Is the license for a specific user or computer?

    The Synthesis license is tied to an individual computer. When installing Synthesis a Installation ID is generated from the individual computer. This Installation ID is then used to generate a Registration ID that is computer specific and includes information when the license expires.

New Research and Development

Synthesis is a software application for conducting scoping, systematic and regular literature reviews. Synthesis focuses on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of conducting literature reviews through automating manual processes and enhancing the workflow. Synthesis is available for Windows, Mac and a Java application that can be run on any platform.