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Literature Review Tracker

A screening-and-extraction spreadsheet with the columns reviews actually need — citekey through evidence quality to citations-to-chase.

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Literature Review Tracker

What's Included

  • 13 columns incl. design, sample, key claim, evidence quality
  • Example row showing intended granularity
  • Plain CSV — Excel, Sheets, pandas, R all read it

Overview

A screening-and-extraction spreadsheet with the columns reviews actually need — citekey through evidence quality to citations-to-chase.

Why use it

Ad-hoc review spreadsheets grow columns mid-review and lose comparability. Fixing the schema first keeps every paper answerable to the same questions.

How to use it

  1. Open in your spreadsheet tool of choice; keep the header row.
  2. One paper per row at screening; fill extraction columns for included papers only.
  3. citekey matches your reference manager — the join key between tools.
When NOT to use this For registered systematic reviews, protocol-driven tools (Covidence/Rayyan) with audit trails beat any spreadsheet.

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