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Can AI automatically turn research papers into evidence summaries?
Massimiliano Pronesti, Angelo Miculescu, Mohsin Kapdi, Paul Flanagan, Oisín Redmond, Joao Bettencourt-Silva, Gurdeep Mannu, Spiros Denaxas, Rui Bebiano Da Providencia E Costa, Anya Belz, Yufang Hou
June 1, 2026
Systematic reviews require researchers to manually extract outcome numbers from dozens of papers, define comparable interventions, and feed structured data into specialized software—a bottleneck that takes weeks. AutoForest automates the entire pipeline from raw PDFs to publication-ready forest plots using language models for data extraction and statistical synthesis. Clinician testing showed it substantially speeds up evidence synthesis and makes meta-analyses accessible without specialized domain training.
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