Lumina ranks every citation against your inclusion criteria. You make every decision, with a complete audit trail from import to export.
Screen abstracts · Retrieve open-access PDFs
Import RIS, CSV, or BibTeX records, let AI rank the queue against your criteria, and keep reviewer labels, notes, conflicts, and exports connected. Lumina guides attention; your research team makes every final decision.
Likely-relevant papers appear earlier while reviewer control and traceability remain visible.
Collaborative Review
Run independent double screening and resolve conflicts in the app.
Scholarly + Government Search
Search research databases and multilingual government grey literature, or upload RIS and CSV citations.
Full-Text PDFs
Automatically retrieve open-access articles or upload custom PDFs for full screening.
Find scientific articles, assess the evidence, and keep every decision traceable.
Search scholarly databases and government publications, or bring your own citation files.
DOI: 10.0000/lumina.example.001
DOI: 10.0000/lumina.example.001
Lumina prioritizes the queue against your criteria. You review each article and decide.
DOI: 10.0000/lumina.example.001
Objective. To assess digital reminders for medication adherence in adults with hypertension.
Methods. A randomized trial compared smartphone reminders with usual care.
Outcome. Medication adherence was assessed during follow-up.
Read the abstract → decide → screen the next article.
Your assessments inform the next ranking.
Retrieve available open-access PDFs, or attach your own, and read them inside Lumina.
DOI: 10.0000/lumina.example.001
Objective. To assess digital reminders for medication adherence in adults with hypertension.
Methods. A randomized trial compared smartphone reminders with usual care.
Outcome. Medication adherence was assessed during follow-up.
Taking medication as prescribed is an important part of hypertension management. This study examined digital support for everyday medication use.
Participants were allocated to digital reminders or usual care. Adherence was evaluated during follow-up.
Resolve reviewer disagreements and take your screening history into reporting.
DOI: 10.0000/lumina.example.001
Start with benchmark papers. Lumina follows their references and citing articles, then ranks discoveries by co-citation strength.
Follow scientific citations to discover relevant articles beyond your keyword search.
DOI: 10.0000/lumina.seed.001
DOI: 10.0000/lumina.seed.002
DOI: 10.0000/lumina.shared.001
A candidate study to assess against your review criteria.
A query for “immunotherapy” may miss a paper described as “checkpoint blockade”. Citation links give you another way to find it.
Most screening tools were built two decades ago. Lumina is designed to solve the modern researcher's bottlenecks with active learning, direct imports, and full transparency.
| Capability | Lumina | Traditional Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Immediate Ranking (No "Cold Start") Start screening sorted citations from paper #1. | Yes (Embeddings) | Requires 50+ screens |
| Direct Multi-Database Search Search and import citations directly in-app. | Scopus + 7 more | Manual RIS files only |
| Automated Citation Snowballing Track backward references & forward citations with co-citation ranking. | Built-in (OpenAlex graph) | None (requires external tools) |
| Real-Time Prioritization Queue re-ranks instantly after each decision. | Every click | Static or batch runs |
| Full-Text PDF Integration Auto-crawl open-access PDFs & read side-by-side. | Auto-fetch & viewer | Manual upload only |
| Interactive AI Assistant Ask questions about study methods or results. | Pixel-Bot co-screener | None |
| AI Auditing & Publication Support Generate methodology audit logs for peer review. | PRISMA-trAIce logs | Black-box or none |
Traditional review tools charge $339+ per year upfront without student discounts. Lumina offers flexible monthly plans that you can pause or cancel anytime.
Test active learning and build PRISMA diagrams with zero commitment.
For one focused review with up to 750 papers.
Take on larger reviews and keep multiple projects moving. A second reviewer is included when you need one.
€10 more/month for over 6× the paper capacity
All the capacity is yours, even when you work alone.
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Use these guides to prepare searches, imports, stopping rules, and tool selection before screening begins.
Plan the review before thousands of records enter the queue.
Move records from PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and more into screening.
Choose a stopping strategy before reviewer time runs out.
Pick the tool that fits your screening and export workflow.
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Turn identification, screening, and inclusion counts into a PRISMA 2020 flow diagram. No signup required.
Lumina serves as a modern, AI-powered alternative to traditional screening tools. It connects to major databases, supports RIS and CSV imports, and ranks your screening queue so reviewers can focus attention on the records most likely to match their criteria.
Lumina is not a general academic search engine like Google Scholar. It is an evidence-search and review tool that brings scholarly records from sources such as PubMed, OpenAlex, Europe PMC, arXiv, bioRxiv/medRxiv, and OpenAIRE together with official government grey literature before screening.
Yes. Lumina helps with the screening stage of literature reviews and systematic reviews: importing citations, ranking titles and abstracts, supporting reviewer decisions, resolving conflicts, and exporting structured results for reporting.
The interactive demo, multi-database search explorer, and PRISMA 2020 flow diagram generator are 100% free with no account or credit card required. You can also start a free trial up to 100 papers with your own citations to experience active learning prioritization on real research data. Full systematic review plans start at just €9/month with flexible monthly billing.
Traditional active learning review tools require you to screen 50+ papers blindly before the AI starts ranking. Lumina solves this by converting your criteria and titles into semantic text embeddings immediately, giving you a prioritized, sorted abstract queue from paper #1.
Yes. Lumina lets you keep Scopus in your workflow and search seven supplementary sources: PubMed, OpenAlex, Europe PMC, arXiv, bioRxiv/medRxiv, OpenAIRE, and a bundled Government publications source. Government queries can be expanded across English, Dutch, German, French, and Spanish. Results are combined and deduplicated, while grey literature remains clearly marked as not necessarily peer-reviewed.
No. To ensure high methodological quality, human reviewers always retain complete control over all decisions. Lumina's active learning engine sorts the queue, and our Pixel-Bot co-screener provides on-demand explanations on tricky abstracts, but reviewers make the final Include or Exclude choices.
Lumina logs identification, screening, exclusion reasons, and final inclusion counts throughout your review. You can generate a PRISMA 2020 flow diagram from those counts instead of rebuilding the numbers manually at the end.
Yes. All Lumina servers are hosted in Germany (EU) under strict GDPR data protection guidelines. Your unpublished review datasets, screening decisions, and uploaded PDF files are private, secure, and never used to train external commercial models.
Rank imported papers against your inclusion criteria, review the evidence, and keep control of every final decision.