This month, we’re sharing a newly released PICO Portal feature, upcoming opportunities to connect at MLA and ISPOR, and a chance to see the platform in action during an upcoming live demo.
New In PICO Portal: Expanded Study Search & Import
Evidence synthesis workflows are often fragmented. Review teams may move studies across multiple tools for searching, citation management, screening, and data extraction, while evidence may originate from database exports, bibliographic managers, gray literature collections, shared PDFs, or identifiers such as DOIs and PubMed IDs. Each source brings records in different formats and metadata structures, which can create inconsistencies, add manual preparation, and slow progress before review work can even begin.
PICO Portal’s newly released study search and import feature is designed to make it easier for teams to begin and manage evidence synthesis projects in one connected environment.
With this release, researchers can:
- Import database exports, EndNote or Zotero libraries, DOIs, PMIDs, and PDFs into a single workspace
- Search OpenAlex with 470M+ records from across multiple scholarly databases simultaneously and expand results through citation analysis to discover relevant studies
- Run forward and backward snowball searches to surface citations connected to a particular paper
- Track uploaded citations using PRISMA 2020
By reducing the effort required to locate, reconcile, and prepare records, this update helps teams move more efficiently from gathering evidence to analysis.
Learn more about PICO Portal’s new Expanded Study Search & Import here.
ScholarIQ: Special Access
Earlier this year, we launched ScholarIQ, a transparent AI-powered research discovery platform designed to support the discovery phase of evidence synthesis.
ScholarIQ provides a structured, traceable workspace where teams can search, screen, review full text, extract data, and generate PRISMA 2020-ready documentation within a single connected environment.
Explore ScholarIQ with a free trial. Learn more here.
Upcoming Events
Medical Library Association’s MLA 2026
We’ll be attending MLA 2026 this year, where PICO Portal and ScholarIQ’s CEO and Founder, Eitan Agai, will present two lightning talks on transparent, AI-assisted approaches to evidence synthesis.
The first session will explore a passage-based validation approach to AI-assisted risk of bias assessment in observational environmental health studies, with a focus on supporting reviewer judgment while maintaining methodological rigor.
The second session will present a structured approach to targeted literature reviews using transparent AI assistance, highlighting how teams can improve efficiency while preserving traceability throughout the review process.
Session 1: AI-Assisted Risk of Bias Assessment in Observational Environmental Health Studies: Isolating Judgment Using a Passage-Based Validation Approach
Date: Wednesday, May 20
Time: 3:00-3:05 PM
Session 2: A Study Approach for Targeted Literature Review Using Transparent AI Assistance
Date: Thursday, May 21
Time: 1:30-1:35 PM
If you’d like to connect at the conference, you can also book time with Eitan: Click Here.
ISPOR 2026
We’ll also be attending ISPOR 2026 next month, where we’ll be presenting A Study Approach for Targeted Literature Review Using Transparent AI Assistance in the expo center.
This work examines how transparent AI-assisted workflows can support targeted literature reviews by improving efficiency in study identification and early synthesis while maintaining clear audit trails and reviewer oversight.
If you’d like to meet during ISPOR, you can also schedule time with us: Click Here.
More Learning Opportunities
Live PICO Portal Demo
Join us for a live demonstration of PICO Portal, our AI-powered evidence synthesis platform.
In this session, we’ll walk through how PICO Portal supports real-world review workflows across screening, data extraction, and other key stages of the evidence synthesis process, while preserving transparency, reviewer control, and methodological rigor.
Whether you’re evaluating tools for a new review or looking to improve efficiency in an existing workflow, this demo will offer a practical look at how teams use PICO Portal in practice.
Save the date: Wednesday May 6 at 11am EST / 3pm GMT.
Registration details will be shared soon.