What is Coventra and what does it offer?

The short version

Coventra is a systematic-review workspace for research teams that need one place to manage studies, screen records, extract data from PDFs, run evidence synthesis, assess quality, collaborate, and export publication-ready materials.

It is built around a human-review model. Coventra can organize work, surface suggestions, enforce access rules, preserve provenance, and generate reproducible outputs, but researchers remain responsible for decisions, interpretation, and manuscript conclusions.

Core functions

• Project setup: create a review project, track protocol checklist items, define project metadata, configure analysis settings, and organize studies.
• Search and import: search external bibliographic sources, import selected records, bring in RIS files, look up DOI metadata, and record search history for reporting.
• Screening: run title/abstract and full-text screening, assign reviewers, use blind mode, collect include/exclude/maybe decisions, resolve conflicts, and export screening/reporting artifacts.
• Extraction: upload or fetch open-access PDFs, view evidence in the browser, extract baseline, outcome, and study-design fields, keep source quotes/pages, and preserve field-level provenance.
• Analysis: run pairwise meta-analysis families, NMA for eligible premium projects, diagnostics, publication-bias views, meta-regression, GRADE-related outputs, and saved analysis runs.
• Quality review: use generic risk-of-bias and quality-assessment workflows, record assessments, resolve conflicts, and generate supported plots or summaries.
• Collaboration: invite full-project collaborators or screening-only reviewers, assign work, comment on screening decisions, review unresolved comments, and track activity.
• Exports: generate data exports, manuscript-support tables, PRISMA/reporting files, analysis materials, reproducibility packages, RIS/BibTeX, and audit-oriented outputs.

What Coventra does not do for you

• It does not make include/exclude decisions for reviewers.
• It does not guarantee that PDF extraction or AI suggestions are correct.
• It does not replace a statistician, methodologist, or content expert.
• It does not bundle proprietary RoB1/RoB2, ROBINS, QUADAS, JBI, or AXIS wording.
• It is not a clinical decision tool and should not be used as the only basis for clinical recommendations.

Free and premium boundaries

Screening is available on the free plan. Free projects can invite standard collaborators within plan limits and can also use screening-only members for screening workflows.

Premium access unlocks advanced project features such as NMA, AI-assisted study-characteristics suggestions, GRADE automation/export, project PDF search, open-access PDF automation, advanced analysis features, advanced templates, premium exports, and higher project/team capacity depending on the selected plan.

Recommended end-to-end workflow

1. Create a project and record the review question, protocol details, planned outcomes, and basic analysis configuration.
2. Search or import studies, then deduplicate and organize the records before starting screening.
3. Invite reviewers, configure screening settings, assign records, and run title/abstract screening.
4. Resolve title/abstract conflicts, move eligible records to full-text review, then repeat decisions and conflict resolution.
5. Upload or fetch PDFs for included/eligible studies and extract baseline, study-characteristic, and outcome data with source evidence.
6. Run validation checks and freeze data when the extraction set is ready for final analysis.
7. Run the appropriate analysis model, inspect figures and diagnostics, and document settings.
8. Complete quality/GRADE work where applicable, then export manuscript tables, PRISMA/reporting files, data files, and reproducibility artifacts.