AI Literature Review Assistant
Ask what the field has already established. Every claim arrives with the paper behind it.
A literature review starts with a question that sounds simple and is not: what has already been established here, and where does the agreement stop. Database search answers a narrower question — which papers contain these words — and leaves the synthesis entirely to you, which is why the first few weeks of a review are usually spent discovering that half the results are irrelevant and a key paper uses different terminology. Starting from what the literature says, with each claim attached to the study it came from, changes the order of work: you read to verify and extend rather than to find out whether a paper is relevant at all.
Does this replace a database search?
No. A systematic search still has to be documented and reproducible. This is for the orientation phase, before and alongside it.
How do I check the answer is right?
Open the sources. Every claim should carry the paper it came from, and a claim without one is a claim to verify elsewhere.
What if my field uses inconsistent terminology?
That is exactly where keyword search struggles most, and where starting from the substance rather than the words helps most.