Research Guides: Generative AI Guide: AI Tools for Literature and Systematic Reviews

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The use of AI in systematic reviews and other types of academic reviews is very new and changing quickly. There is some support from literature on the subject that shows benefits and drawbacks:

AI tools are promising when appropriately used
Transparency about their use is required
AI tools miss some relevant articles for systematic reviews
Deduplication of articles is required
They can save time compared to other tools and methods

This guide is intended to share tools while acknowledging limitations and the further research and guidelines needed.

AI Tools for Systematic Reviews, Literature Reviews and more

ASReview
Open Source tool for screening articles for systematic reviews and meta-analyses. This is a locally hosted resource that works in combination with any research database and/or Zotero. After training, it reorders search results to bring more relevant ones to the top for faster human screening.
Rayyan
Free screening tool for initial screening of abstracts and titles.
Covidence
Subscription systematic review screening tool with a free trial.
Robot Reviewer
Free AI tool to support EBM evidence synthesis by extracting PICO, study design, and biases.

Current research on AI screening of academic reviews

Search of current literature on AI screening for academic reviews at TMU Libraries
A keyword search of TMU Libraries for ("abstract screening" OR "systematic reviews as topic") AND ("Artificial intelligence" OR "Automation" OR "Machine Learning")