About StudyLens
Empowerment through understanding, not authority through assertion.
Our Mission
Health research is powerful — but inaccessible. Papers hide behind paywalls and jargon. Headlines sensationalize. The gap between what a study actually found and what the public believes is enormous.
StudyLens exists to close that gap. We take peer-reviewed research, extract the original findings with full source citations, surface methodological strengths and weaknesses, and show how media covered the results.
Our goal isn't to tell you what to think. It's to give you the tools to evaluate evidence yourself. We succeed when our users outgrow us.
What StudyLens Does
Source-Cited Extraction
Every claim traces back to a specific sentence or table in the original paper. No unsourced assertions.
Quality Flags
Seven-point checklist plus 13 interrogation flags surface study strengths and weaknesses at a glance.
Media Analysis
Automated discovery and stance classification of news coverage so you can see how findings were reported.
Teaching Layer
Interactive explainers decode study designs, statistical methods, and common pitfalls.
Evidence Landscapes
Meta-topics group related studies so you can see the weight of evidence, not just a single paper.
LLM Automation
Claude AI handles extraction, classification, and quality assessment — transparent and auditable.
What StudyLens Is Not
How It Works
From DOI to full analysis in four automated steps.
Identify
Resolve DOI, PMID, and PMCID across OpenAlex, Crossref, PubMed, and Semantic Scholar.
Source
Check open-access status and fetch full text from legal OA sources (PMC, Unpaywall).
Extract
Claude AI extracts 28 fact categories with source citations, confidence scores, and quality flags.
Contextualize
Automated media discovery finds news coverage and classifies stance. Studies are grouped into meta-topics.
Want the full technical details? Read our methodology.
Who We Are
StudyLens is built by Mythic Works LLC, a small team passionate about making science accessible. We believe that better tools for understanding research lead to better decisions — for individuals and society.