Evaluating Elicit’s systematic reviews workflow in an umbrella review on air pollution and acute lower respiratory infections: a methodological study for quality appraisal
Cristina Mazzali, Tiziana Pinciroli, Maria Rosa Valetto, Pietro Dri, Antonio Giampiero Russo, Paola Angelini, Paola Angelini, Serena Broccoli, Marco Monti, Nicola Caranci, Katia Raffaelli, Daniela Fortuna, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Marta Ottone, Laura Bonvicini, Luisa Frova, Stefano Marchetti, Lidia Gargi · 2026
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Description
Cristina Mazzali and colleagues tested in 2026 whether an AI review tool, Elicit, can help build systematic reviews on air pollution and childhood lung infections. Evidence reviews are vital yet slow, so the team ran the AI workflow in parallel with a traditional Boolean search and compared each step.
The traditional search found 324 articles while Elicit returned 500, with only 8 percent overlap. That blocked a head-to-head recall contest, so the team then tested screening and extraction on the shared set. The paper gives review teams a sober gauge of where AI helps and where human methods still anchor the work.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Cristina Mazzali, Tiziana Pinciroli, Maria Rosa Valetto, Pietro Dri, Antonio Giampiero Russo, Paola Angelini, Paola Angelini, Serena Broccoli, Marco Monti, Nicola Caranci, Katia Raffaelli, Daniela Fortuna, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Marta Ottone, Laura Bonvicini, Luisa Frova, Stefano Marchetti, Lidia Gargi |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |