EvidenceScope

Biomedical literature search & AI synthesis
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From a research question to a publication-ready review with PRISMA flow, Risk of Bias, and journal recommendations — in minutes, not days.

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What's inside this tour
  1. Build a search
  2. Refine by content
  3. Filter by impact
  4. Browse results
  5. AI Enrichment (PICO)
  6. Risk of Bias
  7. AI Review
  8. PRISMA flow
  9. Excel & Word export
  10. Journal Finder

2 Refine by content (MeSH + keywords)

After fetching metadata, EvidenceScope extracts MeSH terms and title keywords from your results, ranked by frequency. Drag terms into ALL of these, ANY of these, or NONE of these zones to refine the set with boolean logic — without rewriting your PubMed query.

Refine by content
All of these
Mitochondria 142 · 38* Sepsis 198 · 45*
Any of these
Multiple Organ Failure 87 Mitophagy 42 Reactive Oxygen Species 61
None of these
Animal 53
Available
biomarker 73 prognosis 68 Inflammation 112 Oxidative Stress 94 Apoptosis 71 therapy 88 Cell Death 52
312 after content filter

3 Filter by impact

Slide to keep only journals above a chosen impact threshold. Powered by OpenAlex (2-year mean citedness, 250K+ journals — live API) with SCImago SJR as fallback. Add a citation-count cutoff (NIH iCite) to prioritize papers that have already been validated.

Filter by impact (optional)
Top 25% by impact 94 journals · Include unranked
Min 10 citations 87 papers pass
87 matched

4 Browse results

Each result shows title, authors, journal, impact factor, quartile, year, PMID, and an expandable abstract. Click Include or Exclude to screen each article — or use Include all to bulk-screen. Open-access articles in PubMed Central get a Figures & tables button for AI extraction.

Results · 87 articles
Include all · Clear Enrich Risk of Bias Excel AI Review
1.Mitochondrial dysfunction in sepsis: A new therapeutic target for organ failure
Smith J, Patel R, et al. — Nature Medicine IF 58.7 Q1 · 2024 · PMID:38456123
Sepsis remains the leading cause of death in intensive care units worldwide. Recent evidence suggests that mitochondrial dysfunction plays a central role in sepsis-induced organ failure. During sepsis, mitochondrial membrane potential collapses, oxidative phosphorylation is impaired…
+ Include - Exclude
2.Mitochondria-targeted therapies in sepsis: from bench to bedside
Chen L, et al. — Critical Care Medicine IF 8.8 Q1 · 2024 · PMID:38221045
This review examines the molecular mechanisms linking mitochondrial damage to organ failure in sepsis, including the roles of mitochondrial DNA release, inflammasome activation, and mitophagy…
3.Reactive oxygen species and mitochondrial membrane potential in sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy
Rodriguez M, et al. — Intensive Care Medicine IF 41.3 Q1 · 2023 · PMID:37892341
We assessed mitochondrial function in 142 septic shock patients using respirometry of peripheral blood mononuclear cells…

5 AI Enrichment (PICO)

One click extracts structured data per article: Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome (PICO), plus study design, sample size, country, and a one-line bottom-line takeaway. Powered by Claude — no manual data extraction.

Article 1 · Enriched
1.Mitochondrial dysfunction in sepsis: A new therapeutic target for organ failure
Smith J, et al. — Nature Medicine RCT n=248 Netherlands · 2024
Bottom line: Mitochondria-targeted antioxidant MitoQ improved 28-day survival from 56% to 71% in septic shock with no excess adverse events.
P: Adult ICU patients with septic shock (≥18y) I: MitoQ 80mg IV daily × 7 days C: Standard care + placebo O: 28-day all-cause mortality

6 Risk of Bias (Cochrane)

Cochrane-style 7-domain Risk of Bias assessment per article (D1-D7), with traffic-light visualization. Get an overall judgment per study and a Risk of Bias Overview diagram for all included studies — ready to drop into your manuscript.

Risk of Bias · 87 articles
Domains: D1 Confounding · D2 Selection · D3 Classification · D4 Deviations · D5 Missing data · D6 Measurement · D7 Reporting · Low Moderate Serious
1.Mitochondrial dysfunction in sepsis: a new therapeutic target...
RoB: Low + + + + + + Pre-registered protocol; minor concern with attrition (8% loss to follow-up)
2.Mitochondria-targeted therapies in sepsis: from bench to bedside
RoB: Moderate + + + +
3.Reactive oxygen species and mitochondrial membrane potential...
RoB: Serious X + +

7 AI Review (publication-ready)

Generate an up to 8 000-word narrative review from your included articles. Includes a cited introduction drawing from the references of your source papers, a thematic body citing every paper, future perspectives, conclusion, PRISMA 2020 checklist, PMID list, PRISMA flow diagram, and RoB overview. Downloadable as Word.

Introduction

Sepsis remains the leading cause of mortality in intensive care units worldwide, with an estimated 49 million cases annually {Singer2016}. Despite advances in supportive care, mortality remains stubbornly high at 25-30% for severe sepsis {Rhodes2017}. The pathophysiology of sepsis-induced organ failure is incompletely understood, but converging evidence implicates mitochondrial dysfunction as a central mechanism {Brealey2002, Singer2014}. Mitochondria are the principal cellular sites of ATP generation and play key roles in apoptosis regulation and innate immunity. During sepsis, mitochondrial respiration is impaired through multiple mechanisms — including decreased substrate availability, electron transport chain inhibition, and increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) production {Cherry2017}…

Mitochondrial dysfunction in sepsis

Recent work has converged on three core findings. First, peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) respiration is severely impaired in septic patients {Smith2024, Chen2024}. Smith et al. demonstrated in a multi-center RCT (n=248) that the mitochondria-targeted antioxidant MitoQ improved 28-day survival from 56% to 71% (HR 0.62, 95% CI 0.43-0.89), with no excess adverse events {Smith2024}. Second, mitochondrial membrane potential collapse precedes clinical organ failure by 24-48 hours {Rodriguez2023}. Third, mitochondrial DNA released into circulation acts as a damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) and drives inflammasome activation {Wei2024}…

Therapeutic strategies

Three therapeutic approaches have shown promise. Mitochondria-targeted antioxidants (MitoQ, MitoTEMPO) reduce ROS production at the source, with the strongest evidence from Smith et al. {Smith2024}. Metabolic resuscitation with thiamine, ascorbate, and corticosteroids…

Every citation is a real PMID from your filtered set — no hallucinated references. The full output also includes Methods, Discussion, Limitations, PRISMA 2020 checklist (16 items), and a downloadable Word file.

8 PRISMA flow diagram

Auto-generated PRISMA 2020 flow diagram showing search-to-inclusion numbers — directly downloadable as SVG and embedded in the AI Review Word file. No more drawing it manually in PowerPoint.

PRISMA 2020 Flow
Records identified (PubMed): 847
After content filter (MeSH): 312
Excluded: 535
After impact filter: 94
Excluded: 218
Full-text screened: 87
Included in review: 73
Excluded: 14

9 Export to Excel & Word

Export the full dataset to Excel with every column: title, authors, journal, year, PMID, IF, quartile, citations, screening status, PICO, study design, sample size, country, all 7 RoB domains, abstract. The AI Review downloads as a formatted Word document with embedded PRISMA flow and RoB overview.

literature_review.xlsx
PMID Title Journal IF Design Population RoB
38456123Mitochondrial dysfunction in sepsis…Nature Medicine58.7RCTICU adults n=248Low
38221045Mitochondria-targeted therapies…Critical Care Medicine8.8ReviewN/AModerate
37892341Reactive oxygen species…Intensive Care Medicine41.3CohortSeptic shock n=142Serious
+ 84 more rows · 27 columns total · screening status, citation count, all 7 RoB domains, full abstract

10 Journal Finder

A separate workflow: paste your manuscript title + abstract and EvidenceScope finds the most relevant journals by analyzing where similar published papers appear. Each journal is enriched with CiteScore, H-index, OA status, APC cost, and the Dutch University deal (free APC for VSNU institutions: RUG, EUR, RU, UL, UM, UU, UvA, VU, WUR).

Journal Finder · 73 PubMed results
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#JournalPublisherCiteScoreH-idxOANL dealHits
1Critical Care Medicine
Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine
Wolters Kluwer8.8253HybridFree14
2Intensive Care Medicine
Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology
Springer41.3221HybridFree9
3Shock
Critical Care, Surgery, Hematology
Wolters Kluwer5.8156HybridFree8
4Mitochondrion
Cell Biology, Biochemistry
Elsevier7.4132Hybrid15% discount7
5Free Radical Biology and Medicine
Biochemistry, Cell Biology
Elsevier10.6230Hybrid15% discount6
6Frontiers in Immunology
Immunology, Microbiology
Frontiers11.0191OAFree5

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