Covidence

Spec sheet

Purpose

Covidence is a non-profit platform that helps researchers systematically review research.Read 8 Oct 2026 · covidence.org

Integrations

Covidence lists CRS, EndNote, Zotero, RefWorks, Mendeley, RevMan, and tools supporting RIS, CSV, or PubMedXML formats as compatible workflow tools.Read 8 Oct 2026 · covidence.org

Security

Covidence says it uses industry-standard encryption to store and transfer personal data and operates as a cloud-based service where data may be stored outside a user's country.Read 8 Oct 2026 · covidence.org

Support

The contact page says the support team usually replies within one business day; pricing also includes free online technical support.Read 8 Oct 2026 · covidence.org

Headquarters

Melbourne, AustraliaRead 28 Sep 2026 · covidence.org

Founded

Covidence states that it launched in 2014.Read 8 Oct 2026 · covidence.org

Automation

Covidence offers automatic extraction suggestions from study metadata and large language model extraction when a DOI is available.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.covidence.org

Import limit

Reference imports support EndNote XML, PubMed text, and RIS; files can be up to 50 MB and imports above 15,000 references should be split into batches.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.covidence.org

Institutional customers

Institutional licensing is offered for organizations such as universities, hospitals, and societies, with administrators able to manage user access and see reviews and authors.Read 8 Oct 2026 · covidence.org

Mobile access

Covidence has a mobile-optimized browser version for title and abstract screening, while full-text screening requires the desktop version.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.covidence.org

Ownership

Covidence is developed by the Future Evidence Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to changing how the world creates and uses trustworthy knowledge.Read 8 Oct 2026 · covidence.org

PDF and AI privacy

Covidence says review PDFs and derived data remain confidential to the respective review, and its LLMs do not train on, store, or distribute user-provided PDF data.Read 8 Oct 2026 · support.covidence.org

Review workflow

The platform supports review setup, importing, screening, data extraction, quality assessment, and export.Read 8 Oct 2026 · covidence.org

Screening

Reviewers can independently screen with blinding and structured conflict resolution, and record full-text exclusion reasons.Read 8 Oct 2026 · covidence.org

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• Literature Review Software#8 of 288.0
• AI Literature Review Software#13 of 388.0
• Systematic Review Software#13 of 307.9