Mendeley determines for you which references are duplicates and removes them without consulting you, so you better NOT use Mendely for a systematic review. RefWorks allows you to determine yourself which duplicates should be removed. Good for organizing and deduplicating citationsĮndnote can automatically harvest pdfs and add these to references in your database. Recommended for doing Systematic Reviews. G ood for organizing and deduplicating citationsįree with a l arge social component - can find other researchers in same field The numbers are too big to easily detect mistakes, and it's extra important to have as little mistakes as possible with this type of research. Mendeley is therefore NOT recommended for a systematic review, because for a review you should to be able to justify every step. Mendeley also appears to find more duplicates than other programs, like RefWorks or EndNote, so it's likely you'll lose studies due to false positives.

There is no way to prevent this from occurring at the present time. You can't assess if these are true duplicates, because you can't see which records have been merged. The program will merge duplicate references into one record. Mendeley reviews references’ titles, authors, file hashes, etc, when a file is imported to Mendeley, and these are checked against your existing library in Mendeley, even records that have been deleted in the past. ** Mendeley & duplicates (advise: better not use Mendeley for a systematic review) If references are similar, RefWorks will suggest it as a match and you can delete any unwanted records.

You may search your RefWorks library for duplicate documents. Contact your department's systems administrator or contact us at use it from home: Refworks is online only and Mendeley is free to download ( To use EndNote from home please contact us!ĮndNote has the most deduplication options and we therefore recommend EndNote if you are doing a systematic review. To use Refworks, Mendeley or EndNote at the UMCG network you need to get rights on the network. Questions regarding any of these reference managers can be send to Access:

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