Systematic Reviews at UC Libraries: AI & Systematic Reviews

Readers can work through an FAQ to decide when AI use is acceptable for a review project, recognise situations that prohibit it such as funder or journal bans, licence restrictions on shared articles, and loss of reproducibility, and apply concrete mitigation steps including double-checking AI output, running test batches, using research-specific tools rather than plain chatbots, and disclosing AI use in their methods section. They can then match review steps such as deduplication, title and abstract screening, data extraction and citation chaining to dedicated tools including Rayyan, Abstrackr, RobotReviewer, Litmaps and Research Rabbit, and go deeper via a DOI-linked reading list anchored in the RAISE recommendations for responsible AI in evidence synthesis. The page also equips them to weigh data-privacy and reproducibility questions before putting material into public chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude.

Task

Research & literature

Time

10 minutes

Level

beginner

Cost

Needs a licence — Requires a licence your institution may or may not hold.

Tools

Litmaps, Research Rabbit, Rayyan, DistillerSR, Abstrackr, RobotReviewer, ChatGPT, Claude

Published

2026-09-14