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I Ran a 50-Paper Literature Review in 8 Minutes

Muhammad Irfan
July 5, 2026
Introduction

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A step-by-step workflow for AI-assisted literature review that actually holds up to scrutiny: start from a specific research question, run semantic search over a real bibliographic database, screen for relevance, extract data, and produce a cited synthesis you can audit. The author is blunt about the failure mode of naive approaches — general-purpose chatbots fabricate a large share of references.

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