Literature Searching & Reviews

AI is impacting research, information and literature searches both now and in the future. ChatGPT and CoPilot are just some of the well-known AI models, with more being added all the time. 
SDU employees and students as well as OUH employees has access to Scite AI

While AI models and tools can be a great help in parts of the review writing process, they don't eliminate the need to search for literature, AI models are only a help, but they are not the solution in review writing, and you should always be critical of the suggestions they make.

read more on AI on SDU: https://libguides.sdu.dk/ai-eng/

More on the subject e.g.:

• King's College has an excellent site: "AI tools on evidence synthesis"
• OSF "Responsible use of AI in evidence Synthesis (RAISE): recommendations and guidance" (slow to load)
• an Dijk SHB, Brusse-Keizer MGJ, Bucsán CC, et al. Artificial intelligence in systematic reviews: promising when appropriately used. BMJ Open 2023;13:e072254. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072254
• Lefebvre C, Glanville J, Briscoe S, Featherstone R, Littlewood A, Metzendorf M-I, Noel-Storr A, Paynter R, Rader T, Thomas J, Wieland LS. Technical Supplement to Chapter 4: Searching for and selecting studies [last updated September 2024]. In: Higgins JPT, Thomas J, Chandler J, Cumpston M, Li T, Page MJ, Welch VA (editors). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 6.5. Cochrane, 2024. Available from cochrane.org/handbook. See Technical supplements chapter 3.2.3: Text mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence for term selection and strategy building

Quoting from AI tools?

Always remember to be fully transparent when using tools, including AI tools such as ChatGPT or Copilot. It may not always make sense to refer directly to AI tools, which is just a tool and therefore not responsible for the answers it provides. The responsibility is yours!
That's why it's advisable to write a declaration of use in the methodology section. You must state where, how and why you have used it.

• If you use it to make calculations
• If you use it to improve your language
• If you use it to improve your search

• If you use content created by GAI e.g. texts, images, data, video or other

You might include prompts (Must not contain sensitive or confidential information) and answers in your appendices.

Always check answers and data because AI tools can hallucinate (i.e. create incorrect information based on probability).

If you need to cite, see: https://libguides.sdu.dk/apa7/kunstig_intelligens (in danish)

Publishing and using AI
If you are publishing please follow the AI rules and guidelines from the publishers/ journals, and declare your use of AI tools.

A declaration might be in the method section (1) or in "Conflicts of interest statements" (2).
examples:

1. "A digital artificial intelligence (AI)-powered RDT reader (HealthPulse, Audere, Seattle WA USA) was used to photograph RDTs immediately after interpretation by health workers and again at one week and one month." (Ngufor C, Lindblade KA, Atobatele S, Mpimbaza A, Ahogni I, Ssewante N, Akpiroroh E, Kpemasse A, Okoro O, Agaba B, Cooper S, Griffith K, Humes M. Are malaria rapid diagnostic test results stable over time to support verification of surveillance data? Malar J. 2025 Oct 22;24(1):356. doi: 10.1186/s12936-025-05595-0. PMID: 41126265)
2. "Declaration of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process: During the preparation of this work, the authors used GPT-4o to improve the readability and language of the manuscript. After using this tool/service, the authors reviewed and edited the content as needed and take full responsibility for the content of the published article" (Ganie SM, Pramanik PKD, Zhao Z. Lifestyle data-based multiclass obesity prediction with interpretable ensemble models incorporating SHAP and LIME analysis. Sci Rep. 2025 Oct 22;15(1):36916. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-20936-4. PMID: 41125742.)