Formal evidence synthesis reviews, such as systematic, scoping, rapid, and other reviews, require searches that are transparent, documented, and reproducible. AI literature search tools cannot currently do the high quality searching required for evidence synthesis reviews.
AI search tools may help with less formal, narrative literature reviews, but are not appropriate for formal evidence synthesis searching.
To learn more about doing high quality systematic and scoping reviews, see the Libraries' Evidence Synthesis & Systematic Reviews guide. To discuss expert search and co-authoring service for an evidence synthesis project, contact our Evidence Synthesis team.
Any of the popular standalone chatbots can be a good tool for brainstorming keywords to search for a research topic. Many of the literature search tools linked on this guide also show conceptual keywords that can help with developing search terms.
