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• Contributors WS: conceptualisation, writing the original draft and visualisation. EVE: conceptualisation, writing the review and editing, and supervision. HB, DB, AEM, GG, PH, MIM, JJM, AN, RQ, JT, SW and VL: writing the review and editing. JJM: conceptualisation, writing the review and editing, and supervision. We used ‘ChatGPT 4o’ by OpenAI to assist with refining the language of this manuscript. The final content was solely produced by the authors.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests PH and JJM are co-founders of the systematic review software PITTS. AN is a co-founder of Evidence Prime, the company behind the development of the systematic review software LASER AI. JT is involved in the development of the systematic review software EPPI-Reviewer. These relationships may be considered a potential conflict of interest. All authors have made every effort to ensure that the article is objective and based on sound scientific evidence, without any influence from commercial interests.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.