Abstrackr: Streamline Your Systematic Reviews

Abstrackr: Streamline Your Systematic Reviews

Conducting systematic reviews can be a daunting task, especially when faced with thousands of citations. Abstrackr, developed by Brown University's Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, offers a free, open-source solution to simplify this process. Designed to semi-automate the citation screening phase, Abstrackr leverages machine learning to predict the relevance of studies based on titles and abstracts, significantly reducing the manual workload. Key Features of Abstrackr AI-Powered Recommendations: Utilize machine learning algorithms to identify and prioritize relevant citations, allowing researchers to focus on the most pertinent studies. Collaborative Screening: Invite team members to participate in the screening process, facilitating efficient…
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AnswerThis.org — A Smart Add-On to Systematic Searching!

Finding and organizing the right research papers can often take hours — sometimes days. What if you had an assistant that could do part of this for you: finding relevant studies, summarizing them, and even giving you proper citations? That’s what AnswerThis.org (also accessible via answerthis.io) does. It’s an AI-powered research assistant that helps you ask a question or describe a topic — and then gives you a detailed, referenced summary built from scholarly papers. Using AnswerThis, you can: Get literature summaries with citations Identify research gaps — areas that need more study Save or upload papers in your own…
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Cureous Commons

Cureous Commons

An interesting platform with research data being open to both health researchers and patients. According to this non profit initiative Cureous encourages collaboration and open investigations. And they encourage patient collaborators! This sounds very interesting. The page - Why this initiative explains their intentions and encourages public and private organizations to become partners and thus build a consortium The "Platform" page explains newer initiatives in the way research will be done, and more. Launched in 2020, this sounds like a very interesting initiative. Do check it out at https://www.cureous.life/
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