The future of reviews
The future of reviews
A. S. Hauser
2025 · DOI: 10.1038/s44319-025-00560-z
EMBO Reports · 2 Citations
TLDR
The academic community must acknowledge and prepare for a pivotal shift: as AI tools continue to improve, traditional literature reviews may no longer be the default approach to synthesizing research.
Abstract
The rise of Large Language Models allows generating summaries of and analyzing the scientific literature at unprecedented speed. The academic community must acknowledge and prepare for a pivotal shift: as AI tools continue to improve, traditional literature reviews may no longer be the default approach to synthesizing research.