Optimize country, site and investigator selection

Investigator SmartSelect’s AI-powered recommendations pinpoint the countries, sites and investigators you need to deliver your trial.
Why it matters

Select the right investigators with confidence

Combine investigator performance, enrollment forecasts and competitive intelligence to support stronger decisions across study planning, feasibility and country strategy.
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Find the right investigators

Prioritize investigators based on experience, enrollment performance, capacity and patient access.

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Make stronger country decisions

Compare forecasted enrollment rates and study timelines using proprietary performance data.

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Identify competitive pressure

Benchmark comparable trials and identify active studies targeting the same patient population.

Features

What you can do with Investigator SmartSelect

Prioritize the best investigators for your study

Evaluate investigators by experience, recruitment potential, capacity and patient access. See what drives each recommendation and who is best positioned for your study.
  • Find investigators with the right experience and capacity
  • Surface qualified investigators outside your usual network
  • Bring objective evidence into investigator selection decisions

Forecast enrollment to guide country strategy

See where strong investigator coverage exists and understand how different country strategies affect enrollment timelines and study performance.
  • Forecast enrollment rate and duration by country
  • Identify countries with the strongest investigator coverage
  • Compare recommended countries against your own strategy
Dashboard showing a comprehensive display of historical and current competitive trial analytics.

Turn investigator recommendations into site decisions

See your recommended investigators grouped by organization, so teams can compare and select sites using the same evidence behind every recommendation.
  • See which sites your recommended investigators belong to
  • Compare site trial activity, disease-specific experience, and patient volume
  • Evaluate sites without rebuilding your shortlist
Table view of recommended investigator sites based on an example criteria.
The Data

Built on trusted clinical intelligence

Recommendations draw on Sitetrove and Trialtrove, combined with proprietary investigator-level performance data to create one decision-ready foundation.
590K+

investigators

199K+

sites globally

189

countries

445K+

clinical trials

Why Citeline

Evidence you can stand behind

Trusted clinical intelligence

Grounded in Citeline's curated trial, site, and investigator data, harmonized into one decision-ready foundation.

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Purpose-built AI

A clinical-trial-specific algorithm built with subject-matter and industry experts.

Traceable to source

Trace every recommendation to the source data behind it, verified directly in Sitetrove and Trialtrove.

Configurable to your study

Configure how experience, capacity, recruitment, competition, and patient pool influence recommendations for your study.

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Curated by experts

50+ analysts maintain accuracy across 20+ years of clinical intelligence, supported by extensive global coverage.

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Connected planning

Carry insight across the SmartSolutions workflow, from protocol design to cohort planning to investigator selection.

Use Cases

Where teams put Investigator SmartSelect to work

Evaluate investigators using experience, recruitment potential, capacity and patient access, with visibility into the factors behind every recommendation.

Surface qualified investigators you may otherwise have overlooked, including emerging and underutilized candidates with relevant experience and enrollment potential. Adjust matching strictness by disease, patient segment and phase to widen or tighten the pool.

Compare country strategies and see how each affects enrollment rate, study duration and investigator allocation. Adjust the model to reflect your planned country mix, re-run and compare.
Product dashboard featuring a table of recommended investigators.
Expanded view of a dashboard featuring recommended investigators.
Product dashboard featuring a table of recommended investigators.
The Stakes

The cost of picking the wrong sites

Country, site, and investigator selection is the decision that most determines whether a trial enrolls on time. It is still largely manual, and still made on relationships and historical averages.
~80%
of trials miss enrollment timelines
37%
of selected sites under-enroll
11%
of sites enroll zero patients
~$500K
in lost sales per day of delay
Sources: Tufts CSDD (site enrollment performance; 2023 cost-of-delay analysis); peer-reviewed clinical-trial enrollment research.
Backed by Evidence

Recommendations built on proven clinical intelligence

33%

more accurate enrollment-rate forecasting

Validated across 16,000+ back-tested trials.

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Trusted clinical intelligence

Trial, site and investigator intelligence built on 20+ years of research.

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Investigator performance data

Enrollment and execution signals across 60+ countries.

Transparent recommendations

See the evidence behind every recommendation.

Validated enrollment forecasting

COMPARE

Investigator SmartSelect vs. traditional site selection

Capability Traditional Site Selection Investigator SmartSelect
Search investigator and site trial history
Review past performance of known sites
Investigators ranked against your study criteria
Enrollment forecasting by country
Compare recommended countries with your own strategy
Surface emerging and underutilized investigators
Competitive trial activity and patient demand analysis
Demo

See Investigator SmartSelect in action

The Suite

Part of Citeline SmartSolutions

Investigator SmartSelect works on its own, and connects into one planning workflow.

Protocol SmartDesign

Generate evidence-based protocol recommendations for study design.
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Cohort SmartBuilder

Turn validated protocol criteria into a real-world patient cohort.
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Investigator SmartSelect

Turn your patient cohort into a ranked shortlist of sites and investigators.

Pricing

Find the right SmartSolutions plan for your team

Talk to a Citeline expert about access, setup, and getting started with Investigator SmartSelect.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sponsors and CROs working on study planning, feasibility, country selection, site selection and investigator identification. It supports more informed enrollment decisions using clinical intelligence, investigator performance data and enrollment forecasting.

Traditional site selection often relies on historical knowledge, existing investigator networks and fragmented data sources. Investigator SmartSelect combines investigator recommendations, enrollment forecasting and competitive intelligence in one workflow, so country, site and investigator decisions move faster and hold up under review.

Recommendations are generated from study-specific criteria: trial experience, recruitment potential, capacity, patient access and historical performance. Each recommendation includes visibility into the factors behind the ranking.

In back-testing across 16,000+ historical trials, the enrollment-rate forecast was 33% more accurate than a historical completed-trial benchmark.

Yes. Investigator SmartSelect surfaces qualified emerging and underutilized investigators who may not appear in traditional selection processes, so teams can expand their options while staying aligned to study requirements and enrollment goals.
Investigator SmartSelect combines trial, site and investigator intelligence from Sitetrove and Trialtrove with proprietary investigator performance data through Citeline’s partnership with Greenphire. Recommendations and forecasts are built on this integrated foundation.

Yes. Investigator SmartSelect works on its own and connects to the wider suite, taking criteria and cohorts forward from Protocol SmartDesign and Cohort SmartBuilder.

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