Screening
This is a non-exhaustive list of tools that are either freely available or currently available via UDST.

• Rayyan [free version available]
  Rayyan is a systematic review tool that is used by researchers worldwide. You can make an account and have up to three active reviews, involving unlimited reviewers, on the free, individual plan. For more information, visit Rayyan. It is most helpful for reference screening.
   
• Covidence [contact Library for access]
  Covidence is a web-based software for managing and streamlining systematic reviews. Covidence has flexible templates for data extraction and is able to export information in machine readable files that can integrates into statistics packages for review continuation. The Library may be able to, on a case-by-case basis, provide faculty with a single review with unlimited collaborators. For more information, please contact the library.

Forest Plot Software (for meta-analyses)

This is a non-exhaustive list of tools that are either freely available or currently available via UDST.

• IBM SPSS Statistics [licensed, downloadable to UDST devices]
  SPSS has meta-analytic capabilities and provides instructions on how to create a forest plot.
  Submit a request to IT for access to SPSS.
   
• R Project and R Studio [free, downloadable to UDST devices]
  One can conduct a meta-analysis with R (a programming language). IT lists both R Project and R Studio as pre-approved software that can be requested via the IT HelpDesk if you need to download it to a UDST device. Downloads on your personal computer are free.
  
  See also: R: Balduzzi, S., Rücker, G., & Schwarzer, G. (2019). How to perform a meta-analysis with R: a practical tutorial. Evidence-based mental health, 22(4), 153–160. https://doi.org/10.1136/ebmental-2019-300117
   
• Meta-Essentials [free, personal device]
  Meta-Essentials is a free tool for meta-analysis that was presented in 2017. It facilitates the integration and synthesis of effect sizes from different studies. The tool consists of a set of workbooks designed for Microsoft Excel that, based on your input, automatically produces all the required statistics, tables, figures, and more.
  
  Here is the User Manual for Meta-Essentials.

• Metafor [free, personal device]
  A comprehensive collection of functions for conducting meta-analyses in R. The package includes functions to calculate various effect sizes or outcome measures, fit fixed-, random-, and mixed-effects models to such data, carry out moderator and meta-regression analyses, and create various types of meta-analytical plots.
   
• OpenMeta[Analyst] [free, personal device]
  OpenMeta[Analyst] is a completely open-source, cross-platform software for advanced meta-analysis.
  
  The Open Science Framework has step-by-step instructions on how to use OpenMeta.

• JASP [free, personal device]
  JASP is an open-source project that contains a meta-analysis module.
  
  See this step-by-step guide from them on how to generate forest plots.
  
  Additionally, here is a video on how to run meta-regression analysis on JASP (From Tantry, T. P., Karanth, H., Shetty, P. K., & Kadam, D. (2021). Self-learning software tools for data analysis in meta-analysis. Korean journal of anesthesiology, 74(5), 459–461. https://doi.org/10.4097/kja.21080)

 

Discussions of meta-analysis software

 

• Tantry, T. P., Karanth, H., Shetty, P. K., & Kadam, D. (2021). Self-learning software tools for data analysis in meta-analysis. Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 74(5), 459–461. https://doi.org/10.4097/kja.21080

 

Image from Meta-Analysis Software Popularity in 1,321 Research Papers by Geroges Choueiry (personal website)