SciSpace Academy

Level: Beginner to intermediate · 5 lessons

Literature Review with AI in 5 Lessons

Go from a research question to a written synthesis. You will build a search strategy, organise papers in an evidence table, verify claims in the full text and manage literature overload.

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Lessons

  1. How to Conduct a Literature Review with AI: A WorkflowEN24 min
    Lesson 1Tutorial

    How to Conduct a Literature Review with AI: A Workflow

    A reliable AI-assisted literature review in SciSpace starts with a focused question and a documented search scope. Use SciSpace Literature Review to discover and filter papers, compare them in a consistent evidence matrix, inspect pivotal studies with Chat with PDF, and synthesize themes, disagreements, and gaps. Treat AI summaries as navigation aids and verify every important claim against the original paper.

  2. How to Use an AI Literature Review Tool to Search and Compare PapersEN5 min
    Lesson 2Tutorial

    How to Use an AI Literature Review Tool to Search and Compare Papers

    Use SciSpace Literature Review to turn a focused question into a reviewable paper comparison, not to replace screening judgment. Search with explicit concepts and filters, inspect relevance, define custom comparison fields, compare methods and findings consistently, save the useful sources, and verify extracted evidence before using it in a review or decision.

  3. How to Use AI for Your Literature Review: From Papers to SynthesisEN
    Lesson 3Tutorial

    How to Use AI for Your Literature Review: From Papers to Synthesis

    In SciSpace, turn a set of research papers into a synthesis by extracting the same fields from each study and organizing them around an argument. Build an evidence matrix, form defensible themes, examine methodological differences, explain contradictions, and keep every conclusion linked to the underlying sources.

  4. How to Chat with a Research Paper PDF: Questions, Prompts, and ChecksEN3 min
    Lesson 4Tutorial

    How to Chat with a Research Paper PDF: Questions, Prompts, and Checks

    SciSpace Chat with PDF is most useful when you ask structured, source-checkable questions. Start with the paper’s objective, design, sample, variables, and main finding; request the passage supporting each answer; then examine assumptions, effect estimates, limitations, and relevance to your own question. Verify critical details in the PDF before citing them.

  5. An AI-Assisted Framework for Managing Literature Overload in a PhDEN
    Lesson 5Tutorial

    An AI-Assisted Framework for Managing Literature Overload in a PhD

    Use SciSpace to manage literature overload by triaging continuously instead of trying to read everything. Define chapter-level questions, run broad searches, label papers by relevance and evidence type, save source-linked notes, and schedule periodic synthesis so that the literature becomes an evolving argument rather than an unread archive.

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Use case: Literature review