Exports

Export formats: complete breakdown

Every available export explained, including what it contains, when to use it, and which formats require premium project access.

16 min readUpdated June 11, 2026

How to think about exports

Exports serve different jobs. Some are for manuscript tables, some for reference managers, some for statistical review, and some for long-term audit. Pick the export by the question you need to answer.

Free data exports

  • Project CSV: flat project dataset for QA and downstream analysis.
  • Outcomes Long CSV: long-form outcome rows for statistics workflows.
  • Project JSON: structured project export for pipelines and auditing.
  • R Script: reproducible analysis script scaffold.
  • Validation Report: detailed validation findings per study and field.

Free reporting exports

  • PRISMA Checklist: PRISMA 2020 checklist CSV for manuscript preparation.
  • PRISMA-S Search: logged source strategies, filters, result counts, and imported counts.
  • Included Studies Table CSV: Table 1-style study characteristics summary.
  • Manuscript Characteristics DOCX: Word tables for study and baseline characteristics.
  • Excluded Studies Appendix: full-text exclusions with reasons, exported as a spreadsheet.
  • BibTeX and RIS: all project references for reference managers.
  • Included BibTeX and Included RIS: included studies only, useful for manuscript reference lists.

Free audit exports

  • Deduplication Audit: duplicate counts by method plus candidate-level resolution history.
  • Reviewer Reliability: agreement statistics for screening and blind extraction.
  • Validation Report: field-level validation findings and readiness information.

Premium exports

  • RevMan XML: Cochrane-compatible synthesis export.
  • Interactive HTML: self-contained report artifact for stakeholders.
  • Reproducibility Package ZIP: packaged project exports for handoff and retention.
  • Table 1 Workbook XLSX: spreadsheet version of the included-studies summary.
  • Excel Workbook XLSX: extracted data workbook with separate sheets per category.
  • GRADE SoF: Summary of Findings CSV for evidence grading.

Manuscript characteristics DOCX

The DOCX export builds Word tables for study characteristics and baseline characteristics. It is intended to help prepare manuscript Table 1-style material and appendices.

  • Study characteristics come from study metadata and study-design extraction rows.
  • Baseline characteristics come from baseline extraction rows.
  • The export includes empty-state messages when relevant fields have not been extracted.
  • Open the file and check labels, values, units, missingness, and row order before using it in a manuscript.

Reproducibility package

The reproducibility ZIP is premium-gated and designed for handoff or archiving. It packages structured data and metadata, plus manifests for generated/skipped plot artifacts.

  • data.csv: extracted dataset.
  • metadata.json: export metadata.
  • forest_plots/manifest.json: forest plot status by outcome.
  • rob_plots/manifest.json: risk-of-bias plot status.

Pre-submission export checklist

  1. Open every file you plan to share.
  2. Check that the export contains the intended project and study scope.
  3. Compare key manuscript values against the extraction grid and source PDFs.
  4. Confirm full-text exclusion reasons match the final protocol categories.
  5. Save final exports with the protocol, analysis settings, and date generated.