AI-Assisted Literature Reviews

Tools, the hallucinated-citation crisis, and AI-augmented research workflows

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Reading · Papers to read

5 papers covering hallucination rates across legal, medical and scientific contexts plus systematic-review screening. Most other Week 5 references are tool documentation rather than primary papers.

Each entry links to the canonical version of the paper: on arXiv, the journal, or the publisher. Where a paper is paywalled, the DOI is given for UCT-library access.

5.1 · The AI Literature Review Landscape

Assessing the Ability of ChatGPT to Screen Articles for Systematic Reviews

Syriani, E., David, I., & Kumar, G. (2023)

View source · arXiv:2307.06464

5.2 · Free Tools Deep Dive

Covers Semantic Scholar, ResearchRabbit, Connected Papers, NotebookLM, Google Scholar: tools, not papers.

5.3 · Paid Tools and When They Are Worth It

Covers Elicit, Consensus, Scite.ai, SciSpace, Litmaps Premium: tools, not papers.

5.4 · The Hallucinated Citation Crisis

Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools

Magesh, V., Surani, F., Dahl, M., Suzgun, M., Manning, C. D., & Ho, D. E. (2024) — Stanford HAI

View source · arXiv:2405.20362

Hallucination Rates and Reference Accuracy of ChatGPT and Bard for Systematic Reviews

Chelli, M., Descamps, J., Lavoué, V., et al. (2024) — JMIR 26: e53164

View source · DOI:10.2196/53164

Hallucinations in AI-Generated References for Mental Health Literature Reviews

Linardon, J., et al. (2025) — JMIR Mental Health 12: e80371

View source · DOI:10.2196/80371

Hallucinations in Bibliographic Recommendation: Citation Frequency as a Proxy for Training Data Redundancy

Niimi, J. (2025)

View source · arXiv:2510.25378

5.5 · Building Your Research Workflow with Claude

Original workflow content.

5.6 · Hands-On Activities and Assessment

Assessment design.

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