CRUISE-Screening: Living Literature Reviews Toolbox

TL;DR

CRUISE-Screening is a web-based tool that automates and simplifies the process of conducting living literature reviews by integrating search APIs and AI models for screening and updating research literature.

Contribution

The paper introduces CRUISE-Screening, a novel open-source platform that automates literature search and screening for living reviews, integrating APIs and AI models for continuous updates.

Findings

Automates literature search updates via APIs

Utilizes AI models for screening relevant publications

Supports validation of citation screening algorithms

Abstract

Keeping up with research and finding related work is still a time-consuming task for academics. Researchers sift through thousands of studies to identify a few relevant ones. Automation techniques can help by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of this task. To this end, we developed CRUISE-Screening, a web-based application for conducting living literature reviews - a type of literature review that is continuously updated to reflect the latest research in a particular field. CRUISE-Screening is connected to several search engines via an API, which allows for updating the search results periodically. Moreover, it can facilitate the process of screening for relevant publications by using text classification and question answering models. CRUISE-Screening can be used both by researchers conducting literature reviews and by those working on automating the citation screening process to validate their algorithms. The application is open-source: https://github.com/ProjectDoSSIER/cruise-screening, and a demo is available under this URL: https://citation-screening.ec.tuwien.ac.at. We discuss the limitations of our tool in Appendix A.