Transforming literature screening using AI

This Coffee Lecture explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping the way we find, prioritize, and screen scientific literature – not only for systematic reviews, but for any literature-intensive research project. We will showcase intelligent tools like ASReview, Covidence, and Rayyan for efficient screening and prioritization, as well as platforms like Consensus and scite that support rapid evidence discovery and citation analysis. These tools help reduce manual workload, increase transparency, and make literature workflows more efficient and scalable. We’ll also briefly touch on how large language models (LLMs) are being used to classify abstracts, extract structured data, and support semi-automated decision-making in the early stages of literature analysis.