Our clients screen over 50,000 references every day – over 4 million in total to date – and have completed thousands of reviews using our software. We’re often asked about citing the use of DistillerSR in publications and presentations, so we put together the...
Peter O'Blenis
Building the Distilled COVID-19 Reference Sets
We are currently living through an unprecedented global pandemic. All of our lives are impacted by COVID-19, whether we know someone personally affected by the virus or not. “Physical distancing” is quickly becoming the new normal in many communities. The critical...
COVID catalyst: Inside Ottawa’s life science firms’ war against the virus
This article originally appeared in The Ottawa Citizen by James Bagnall. When Ontario declared a COVID-19 health emergency last spring, the first instinct of Ottawa entrepreneur Peter O’Blenis was to preserve cash. “We basically stopped our discretionary spending,”...
DistillerSR’s CTO, Ian Stefanison Explains the Benefits of Continuous AI Reprioritization in Systematic Reviews
Systematic reviews are a time-consuming and resource-intensive process. Even when the review is “small,” it’s common to see these projects take several months to complete. However, today there has been a shift in the needs of the systematic review community. More...
3 Ways to Reduce Risk when Adopting AI for Literature Reviews
Although artificial intelligence technology is advancing at an incredible pace, it’s still common for researchers to hesitate when it comes to implementing it into their systematic review processes. Why? For many researchers, it comes down to uncertainty about the...
Artificial Intelligence Solutions – One of These Things is Not Like the Other
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in the literature review world these days. For researchers working on systematic reviews, there are many tasks that are currently amenable to automation and AI. But it’s important to know, from a researcher perspective, that...
The Null, the Negative, and the Unpublished: Importance of Sharing All Research
It’s common knowledge that “positive” results are often published more frequently and widely than “negative” or “null” results. There is strong evidence for such reporting biases, including both non-publication of full studies, leading to “publication bias” and...
Copyright Considerations in Scientific Research
This Guest Post comes from Kerri Mattaliano, Director, Corporate Product Solutions, Copyright Clearance Center. The ability to seek, discover, access, and collaborate using scientific, technical, and medical (STM) articles is vital to evidence-based research such as...
Hot Tech: How Technology is Solving Today’s Biggest Systematic Review Challenges
At DistillerSR, we believe in the power of evidence-based research. As a software company, we believe in harnessing the power of technology to make the lives of researchers easier, allowing them to work more efficiently and effectively. There’s a lot of hot tech...
4 Reasons You Need to Attend DistillerSR Week 2020
One of our goals for this year was to create a user conference for DistillerSR users to come together, learn from the community, and network. Of course, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, those plans had to change. Instead, we decided to take our user conference idea...