Conducting a systematic review using Elicit's guided workflow

This workflow (available to Pro users) guides you through creating a systematic review, step by step.

It is designed to significantly accelerate large systematic reviews with many papers and data extraction questions. With this new flow, you can:

• Iterate quickly on screening and data extraction by first testing criteria/extractions on a smaller, randomized "pilot" set of papers

• Use AI-generated columns to significantly accelerate screening/extraction

• Add 20 columns in a data extraction table (vs. 10 before)

• Screen and extract data from 1,000 papers at once in a single table (subject to the limitations of your Elicit plan)

• Work on other tasks while large extraction jobs are processing in the background

The new guided "Conduct systematic review" workflow is likely better for most systematic reviews.

If you already feel confident about your columns, are working with a smaller set of papers and columns, and need a less rigorous literature review process, you can always go directly to the Extract data from PDF workflow.

Start by choosing "Conduct systematic review" on the homepage and entering your research question.

Use Elicit's suggestions to make your research question more precise, which will improve Elicit's screening and column suggestions.

Once your question is accepted, you will enter Step 1: Gather papers. The following articles describe the next steps in detail:

• Conduct Systematic Reviews Step 1: Gather Papers

• Conduct Systematic Reviews Steps 2-3: Screening

• Conduct Systematic Reviews Steps 4-5: Data Extraction

Your main toolbar at the top of the screen now has a new Reviews section. You can click here any time to find previous and in-progress Reviews you've created:

If you have many Reviews, you can rename them to make them easier to identify. Open the review and click the dropdown that appears when you hover over the review title: