Start a systematic review | Step 1: Gather papers

This article shows you how to gather papers, Step 1 in Elicit's new "Start a systematic review" workflow.

After entering in your research question, Elicit will now display your Library. Choose all the papers in your Library you may want to include in your systematic review (you can screen papers in/out in the next step).

You can choose up to 1,000 papers to screen.

To upload new papers into your Library for inclusion, click the Upload button.

Full instructions on using Zotero with Elicit are available here.

If you want to use papers imported from Zotero, navigate to your Library to import them first. Those papers will then be available to when you choose "Select from Library."

Elicit will also search across 125 million papers and provide up to 500 relevant papers to include in your screening. To include them, keep the "Elicit search results" toggle selected.

In later steps, you will be able to see which papers came from your Library or from Elicit Search at the bottom of each paper metadata.

Once you've finished selecting all papers you'd like to include, click "Define screening" at the upper-right side of your screen to go to Steps 2-3: Screening or click "Skip screening" to go straight to Step 4: Data Extraction.