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Objective: This study aims to summarize the usage of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the process of creating a scientific review. We look at the range of stages in a review that can be automated and assess the current state-of-the-art…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Dmitry Scherbakov , Nina Hubig , Vinita Jansari , Alexander Bakumenko , Leslie A. Lenert

Scientific writing builds upon already published papers. Manual identification of publications to read, cite or consider as related papers relies on a researcher's ability to identify fitting keywords or initial papers from which a…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Christin Katharina Kreutz , Ralf Schenkel

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a potential solution to automate the complex processes involved in writing literature reviews, such as literature collection, organization, and summarization. However, it is yet unclear how good…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Xuemei Tang , Xufeng Duan , Zhenguang G. Cai

In the process of Systematic Literature Review, citation screening is estimated to be one of the most time-consuming steps. Multiple approaches to automate it using various machine learning techniques have been proposed. The first research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Wojciech Kusa , Allan Hanbury , Petr Knoth

Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled new ways to satisfy information needs. Although great strides have been made in applying them to settings like document ranking and short-form text generation, they still struggle to compose…

Code Review consists in assessing the code written by teammates with the goal of increasing code quality. Empirical studies documented the benefits brought by such a practice that, however, has its cost to pay in terms of developers' time.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Rosalia Tufano , Gabriele Bavota

The automation of scientific discovery has been a long-standing goal within the research community, driven by the potential to accelerate knowledge creation. While significant progress has been made using commercial large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yixuan Weng , Minjun Zhu , Guangsheng Bao , Hongbo Zhang , Jindong Wang , Yue Zhang , Linyi Yang

Review articles summarize state-of-the-art work and provide a means to organize the growing number of scholarly publications. However, the current review method and publication mechanisms hinder the impact review articles can potentially…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Allard Oelen , Markus Stocker , Sören Auer

This paper introduces AutoSurvey, a speedy and well-organized methodology for automating the creation of comprehensive literature surveys in rapidly evolving fields like artificial intelligence. Traditional survey paper creation faces…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yidong Wang , Qi Guo , Wenjin Yao , Hongbo Zhang , Xin Zhang , Zhen Wu , Meishan Zhang , Xinyu Dai , Min Zhang , Qingsong Wen , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Yue Zhang

Systematic reviews are essential to summarizing the results of different clinical and social science studies. The first step in a systematic review task is to identify all the studies relevant to the review. The task of identifying relevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Gaurav Singh , James Thomas , John Shawe-Taylor

Peer review in grant evaluation informs funding decisions, but the contents of peer review reports are rarely analyzed. In this work, we develop a thoroughly tested pipeline to analyze the texts of grant peer review reports using methods…

Review articles are a means to structure state-of-the-art literature and to organize the growing number of scholarly publications. However, review articles are suffering from numerous limitations, weakening the impact the articles could…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Allard Oelen , Markus Stocker , Sören Auer

Academic research is an exploration activity to solve problems that have never been resolved before. By this nature, each academic research work is required to perform a literature review to distinguish its novelties that have not been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Xiangci Li , Jessica Ouyang

Expert domain writing, such as scientific writing, typically demands extensive domain knowledge. Although large language models (LLMs) show promising potential in this task, evaluating the quality of automatically generated scientific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Furkan Şahinuç , Subhabrata Dutta , Iryna Gurevych

Appropriate reviewer assignment significantly impacts the quality of proposal evaluation, as accurate and fair reviews are contingent on their assignment to relevant reviewers. The crucial task of assigning reviewers to submitted proposals…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Meltem Aksoy , Seda Yanik , Mehmet Fatih Amasyali

Peer review is a cornerstone of quality control in scientific publishing. With the increasing workload, the unintended use of `quick' heuristics, referred to as lazy thinking, has emerged as a recurring issue compromising review quality.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Sukannya Purkayastha , Zhuang Li , Anne Lauscher , Lizhen Qu , Iryna Gurevych

Searching, filtering and analysing scientific literature are time-consuming tasks when performing a systematic literature review. With the rise of artificial intelligence, some steps in the review process are progressively being automated.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 José de la Torre-López , Aurora Ramírez , José Raúl Romero

We qualitatively compared literature reviews produced with varying degrees of AI assistance. The same LLM, given the same corpus of 280 papers but different selections, produced dramatically different reviews, from mainstream and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Saadi Lahlou , Annabelle Gouttebroze , Atrina Oraee , Julian Madera

With the rapid growth of academic publications, peer review has become an essential yet time-consuming responsibility within the research community. Large Language Models (LLMs) have increasingly been adopted to assist in the generation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Xian Gao , Jiacheng Ruan , Zongyun Zhang , Jingsheng Gao , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

The rapid expansion of AI research has intensified the Reviewer Gap, threatening the peer-review sustainability and perpetuating a cycle of low-quality evaluations. This position paper critiques existing LLM approaches that automatically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-15 JungMin Yun , JuneHyoung Kwon , MiHyeon Kim , YoungBin Kim