Keep Reviews Current with Review Monitoring
Run recurring searches, see genuinely new evidence ranked by relevance, and decide what enters your review.
Why Use Review Monitoring?
A published or completed systematic review starts aging as soon as new evidence appears. Review Monitoring repeats your search and prepares a controlled update queue, while preserving the state of your completed review until you explicitly accept a paper.
Key Benefits:
- ✓Less noise: DOI, source, and title matching remove papers already known to the project.
- ✓Useful ordering: Candidates are ranked against your criteria and previously included evidence.
- ✓Controlled updates: Accept or dismiss candidates from a separate inbox; nothing is silently added to the review.
How to Set Up a Monitor
From a Project
Open the Monitoring tab of a project, enter the search you want to repeat, select the databases, and start the monitor. Lumina immediately schedules the first scan and repeats it weekly.
- 1. Go to your project page.
- 2. Select the "Monitoring" tab.
- 3. Click "Set up monitoring".
- 4. Confirm the query and databases, then start the monitor.
From Database Search
After checking a database search, choose Monitor this search. The monitor stays linked to that project and reuses the query and database selection.
- 1. Open a project's database search.
- 2. Run and inspect your search.
- 3. Click "Monitor this search".
- 4. Review future matches in the project's update inbox.
Triage New Evidence
The update inbox separates high, possible, and low relevance candidates. Open a paper's source, select useful candidates, then accept them into screening or dismiss them. A completed project is reopened only when at least one genuinely new paper is accepted.
Monitor Control Panel
The global Review Monitoring page shows active monitors, pending candidate counts, last-run dates, and controls to pause or resume recurring scans.