How AI Can Streamline Your Literature Review Search (Full Transcript)
[00:00:00] Speaker 1: AI can save you a ton of time in your literature review if you use it in the right and ethical way. One of the biggest mistakes I see students make is they struggle in the literature review funnel on how broad or how narrow to go. So what I recommend doing is use an open access AI tool, ChatGPT is fine for this, and ask, hey, ChatGPT, here's my topic, here's the main outcome I'm looking at in the relationship I'm studying. Is this too broad or too narrow for a literature review, and if so, can you make suggestions? That prompt will really help you get started in the right direction. But what ChatGPT can further do is help you articulate your search strategy, which is really important to execute. Ask ChatGPT, hey, I'm going to search Google Scholar, what prompt should I put into Google Scholar to hone in like a laser beam on the right resources for my review? It will save you tons of time. And it will save you tons of time. And it will save you tons of time.
- Use AI to assess whether your literature review topic is too broad or too narrow and get suggestions to refine it.
- Ask AI to help articulate a clear search strategy before you begin searching databases.
- Have AI propose targeted Google Scholar search strings to quickly locate the most relevant studies.
- Use AI ethically as a planning and efficiency aid, not as a substitute for reading and synthesizing sources.