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Abstract
Despite a major increase in the range and number of software offerings now available
to help researchers produce evidence syntheses, there is currently no generic tool
for producing figures to display and explore the risk-of-bias assessments that routinely
take place as part of systematic review. However, tools such as the R programming
environment and Shiny (an R package for building interactive web apps) have made it
straightforward to produce new tools to help in producing evidence syntheses. We present
a new tool, robvis (Risk-Of-Bias VISualization), available as an R package and web
app, which facilitates rapid production of publication-quality risk-of-bias assessment
figures. We present a timeline of the tool's development and its key functionality.