alterlab-literature-review
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Conducts comprehensive, systematic literature reviews across multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar), with PRISMA 2020 flow tracking, study screening (title/abstract and full-text), evidence-table extraction, and risk-of-bias assessment (RoB 2, ROBINS-I, AMSTAR 2), producing professionally formatted markdown documents and PDFs with verified citations in multiple styles (APA, Nature, Vancouver). Use when running a systematic or scoping literature review, research synthesis, or broad literature search, building a PRISMA flow diagram, screening studies, extracting an evidence table, or assessing risk of bias across biomedical, scientific, and technical domains. For quantitative pooling of effect sizes (forest/funnel plots) use alterlab-meta-analysis; for an open-ended multi-agent investigation, fact-check, or Socratic research-question work use alterlab-deep-research. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
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