Literature Review Automation
Automated literature review using academic databases, citation analysis, and synthesis
Complexity: Complex | Duration: 30m+ | Category: Research/Intelligence
Tags: literature-review academic-research citation-analysis synthesis research-automation
Workflow Diagram
Steps
Step 1: Query formulation
Agent: research
agent - Develop search queries with Boolean operators and keywords
Step 2: Database search
Agent: web
search-researcher - Search Google Scholar, PubMed, IEEE, ACM, arXiv
Step 3: Screening
Agent: research
agent - Apply inclusion/exclusion criteria to filter relevant papers
Step 4: Citation collection
Agent: web
search-researcher - Extract citations, abstracts, full-text where available
Step 5: Deduplication
Agent: data
engineering - Remove duplicate papers across databases
Step 6: Citation analysis
Agent: research
agent - Analyze citation networks to find seminal works
Step 7: Synthesis
Agent: documentation
writer - Synthesize key findings, methodologies, gaps in literature
Step 8: Bibliography
Agent: documentation
writer - Generate formatted bibliography with annotations
Usage
To execute this workflow:
/workflow research/intelligence/literature-review-automation.workflow
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