Institution: Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)
Email address: aelmagarmid@hbku.edu.qa
Title: Rayyan – The Systematic Review App
Abstract:
Rayyan (https://rayyan.qcri.org) is an end-to-end collaborative platform (web and mobile) to expedite the creation of systematic reviews and other types of literature reviews, using state-of-the-art machine-learning and data analytics techniques. A systematic review is a literature review focused on a research question to identify, appraise, select, and synthesize relevant research evidence. With more than 25k users and a weekly growth rate of 3%, the user-base is doubling every 6 months. Users hail from 90+ countries where UK, Sweden, Netherlands, Brazil, Japan and the United States are at the top of the list. An extensive user survey shows several interesting observations on current strengths and potential improvements. Of particular importance, users reported an average of 50% time-saving compared to other existing technologies
Bio
Dr Ahmed K. Elmagarmid is executive director of Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), and an emeritus professor at Purdue University. Previously he was chief scientist at Hewlett-Packard.
He is a recipient of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) award from President Reagan in 1988; an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow and an AAAS Fellow. Universities of Dayton (B.S. 1977) and Ohio State (M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1985) have named him among their distinguished alumni.
