Litstream

Spec sheet

Purpose

Litstream helps researchers collaborate on literature screening and data extraction while tracking review work across team members.Read 8 Oct 2026 · icf.com

Intended users

ICF says its literature review tools have been used by state and federal agencies, nonprofits, watchdogs, and private researchers.Read 8 Oct 2026 · icf.com

Support

ICF offers expert support across review design and execution, including search strategies, criteria, study quality assessment, data integration, and training for collaborators.Read 8 Oct 2026 · icf.com

Headquarters

ICF says it relocated its headquarters to Fairfax, Virginia, in 1987.Read 7 Oct 2026 · icf.com

Founded

1969Read 28 Sep 2026 · icf.com

Collaboration

Litstream tracks documents through the review process, supports simultaneous team work, and provides staffing assignments and progress visuals.Read 8 Oct 2026 · icf.com

Data extraction

Its interactive online worksheets support specified fields, nested data, conditional fields, and calculations based on logic and equations.Read 8 Oct 2026 · icf.com

Documented process

ICF describes Litstream as documenting review methods and study progress to support transparent and reproducible reviews.Read 8 Oct 2026 · icf.com

Founder and date

ICF says the Inner City Fund was founded in 1969.Read 7 Oct 2026 · icf.com

Interoperability

ICF says it builds automated pipelines to migrate data between platforms and can tailor integrations to organizational resources.Read 8 Oct 2026 · icf.com

Prioritization

Litstream offers active machine learning, machine learning, unsupervised clustering, and supervised clustering to prioritize documents for review.Read 8 Oct 2026 · icf.com

Reporting

Built-in reports and visualizations include interactive bar charts and heat maps, and Blueprint can combine data from multiple review steps.Read 8 Oct 2026 · icf.com

Review stages

The tool suite covers literature search, prioritization, text screening, inventory, data extraction and analysis, study quality assessments, and visualization.Read 7 Oct 2026 · icf.com

Review workflow

Managers can design review steps, assign work, and monitor progress at a granular level.Read 8 Oct 2026 · icf.com

Screening

Users can configure document tags and keyword highlights, assign screening tasks, and move studies to later steps based on screening results.Read 8 Oct 2026 · icf.com

Security certifications

ICF reports independent third-party audits and certifications including ISO 27001, SOC 2, and Cyber Essentials Plus, and says it uses NIST guidelines and standards.Read 7 Oct 2026 · icf.com

Tool coverage

The tool suite covers literature search, prioritization, text screening, inventory, data extraction and analysis, study quality assessments, and visualization.Read 8 Oct 2026 · icf.com

Where Specifiction places it

• Systematic Review Software#27 of 306.8