How can I easily identify duplicates in my searches?
The easiest way to identify duplicate articles in your searches across multiple databases is by exporting the results into a Covidence project. If you're a McGill student, staff, or faculty member, you have free access to Covidence. Yay! Covidence is an online tool that streamlines the process of knowledge syntheses (systematic reviews, scoping reviews, etc.) These types of reviews involve the systematic screening of all retrieved articles, but it ALSO helps with de-duplicating articles automatically. Even if you're not working on a comprehensive review, you can simply create a project within Covidence, and import your search results from each databases you searched in (tip - export the results as an .ris file!). Covidence will tell you how many duplicate articles it has detected, and removes them for you.
Set up your account in Covidence and learn more about the tool here.
Below is a screenshot of what your project page in Covidence can look like after you've uploaded multiple different files of articles, and Covidence has identified the duplicates:
