Systematic Literature Reviews | Elicit: Al for scientific research
Systematic Literature Reviews
The future of evidence synthesis
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State of the art accuracy
80%
Time savings
99.5%
Up to 99.5% screening recall
96%
Data extraction accuracy
138M
Papers and clinical trials to include in your review
how it works
Elicit helps accelerate every step of a systematic review
Step 1
Refine your protocol
Choosing the right review protocol is half the battle. Use Elicit to refine research questions and search strategies.
Step 2
Gather every source
Combine searches across PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, Elicit’s corpus of 138 million papers, or import from other databases.
Run reproducible keyword searches or use Elicit’s semantic search to ensure you don’t miss any relevant papers.
Step 3
Screen each paper
Screen up to 40,000 papers in real-time.
Elicit autosuggests screening criteria and recommendations. You can agree, edit, or add your own.
Every decision is PRISMA-auditable with exclusion reasons, per-criterion scores, and supporting quotes. Dual review pairs two humans with AI assistance, or uses AI as the second reviewer.
Step 4
Extract data
Data extraction is one of Elicit's superpowers. Elicit has the most accurate data extraction of any AI product, including from tables and figures, where most clinical outcomes actually live.
We can extract both quantitative and qualitative data. Every extraction is supported by quotes or figures from the source.
Iterate with our AI-suggested data extraction templates, or create your own.
Step 5
Synthesize the evidence
Elicit generates reports synthesizing across up to 200 papers, with each claim backed by sentence-level citations from the sources.
Use one of our built-in templates or customize one for your organization.
All reports contain a methods section with PRISMA flow diagrams, tables of paper summaries, and search strategies.
Data sources
Synthesize evidence across many sources
Elicit is your one-stop shop to search over high-quality scientific sources
Academic papers
Search over 138 million academic papers and conference proceedings.
Updates weekly.
Clinical trials
Search over 545,000 trials.
Registered on clinicaltrials.gov.
Updates in real-time.
BYOData
Upload your own documents.
Integrate company subscriptions to access more full-text papers.
Features
Researchers especially love these features
Sentence-level citations
- Elicit cites every AI-generated claim with the exact sentence or figure from the underlying paper.
Other AI tools only link to references. They make you read the entire paper to figure out where the AI answer is coming from. Sometimes, the information is not even in the cited source!
Dynamic screening & extraction
- Sometimes you don't know which papers you want, or what information you want from them, until you see what's out there.
Elicit's interactive screening & data extraction help you explore the literature in real-time so that you can refine what you're looking for.
Accuracy & precision
- We've rigorously trained and validated Elicit's accuracy. Elicit can analyze detailed information such as PFS, adverse effects, and detailed interventions or outcomes by trial arm at levels of accuracy exceeding human extraction.
Case studies
Validation & impact
Our team and our customers have rigorously tested and evaluated Elicit's accuracy
VDI / VDE used Elicit's data extraction for a systematic review informing German education policy. Elicit correctly extracted 1,502 out of 1,511 data points, an accuracy rate of 99.4%.
99.4%
Data extraction accuracy
11x
More evidence considered due to automation
Researchers at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, compared Elicit to manual data extraction and found that Elicit had near-zero false negatives, meaning it did not miss any key information.
363
Data points compared to manual extraction
0
False negatives; no key information missed
Our team also validates accuracy by comparing Elicit results to the results of published systematic reviews. We compare search, screening, and data extraction steps.
99.5%
Sensitivity
96%
Data extraction accuracy
Testimonials
What our users say
Being in rare disease, I search for data across decades of research. I need to compare evolving experimental designs, models, and conclusions. Elicit SLR dramatically reduces the time to get a good overview of the available studies. I can spend my valuable time working through the highlighted sources, understanding conclusions, and applying this knowledge to better my research questions.
Heather Richbourg
PhD, Bioinformatics Scientist
at
Ultragenyx Pharmaceuticals
Vision
Can AI take systematic reviews to the next level?
Conforming to today's guidelines is necessary. But some of those guidelines were designed around the constraints of doing work manually. How can AI enable even more impactful evidence synthesis?
Living reviews
Combine Elicit Systematic Reviews and Alerts to create living reviews - easily updating systematic reviews with new information every year, or as needed.
Transparency for free
Once you finish your review, you can share a link to the entire process and intermediate results with anyone, even someone who does not have an Elicit account. The recipient can review every step you took.
Iterative protocol design
It's hard to define your review protocol without knowing what research is or is not out there.
An automated approach helps you iterate and test different criteria quickly before committing to one.
Resuable data
The real treasure is the papers we reviewed along the way.
Doing your reviews in Elicit makes it easier to reuse some of the papers you painstakingly reviewed in other projects.