RCT-Reviewer

RCT-Reviewer is a modernized, standalone version of RobotReviewer, designed as a third-party reference tool for Risk of Bias assessment. It builds upon RobotReviewer’s original machine learning models trained on 12,808 randomized controlled trials (RCTs).

• Main Repository: The full source code, local run options, and model weight files are available in the main repository.

  • 🔗 aurumz-rgb/RCT-Reviewer

• Model Weights (Hugging Face): The pre-trained SVM and lexicon models are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub.

  • 🔗 Aurumz/RCT-Reviewer

• Original Project: This project is a modernized, standalone version of the acclaimed RobotReviewer.

  • 🔗 ijmarshall/robotreviewer

If you use the online tool or the underlying software in your research, please cite both the updated RCT-Reviewer version and the original RobotReviewer paper.

Sahu, V. (2026). RCT-Reviewer: A Modernized, Standalone Tool for Automated Analysis of Clinical Trials (RCTs). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20618338

@software{RCT-Reviewer,
  author    = {Sahu, V.},
  title     = {RCT-Reviewer: A Modernized, Standalone Tool for Automated Analysis of Clinical Trials (RCTs)},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.20618338},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20618338}
}

Marshall IJ, Kuiper J, Banner E, Wallace BC. “Automating Biomedical Evidence Synthesis: RobotReviewer.” Proceedings of the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2017 (July): 7–12.

@article{RobotReviewer2017,
  title    = "Automating Biomedical Evidence Synthesis: {RobotReviewer}",
  author   = "Marshall, Iain J and Kuiper, Jo{\"e}l and Banner, Edward and Wallace, Byron C",
  journal  = "Proceedings of the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)",
  volume   = 2017,
  pages    = "7--12",
  month    = jul,
  year     = 2017,
}

This project is a derivative work of RobotReviewer and is distributed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE v3.0.