1-Hour Online Session · Zoom · 7 August 2026 · 3:30–4:30 PM
AI for Literature Review & Bibliography Management
A hands-on clinic for clinical students & researchers
Speaker: Ts. Dr. Mohd Nor Akmal Khalid · CAIT, FTSM, UKM
Host: Centre for Drug & Herbal Development, Faculty of Pharmacy, UKM
Before we begin · click to vote
How do you find and manage papers now?
Tap the options that apply — we’ll calibrate the hour to the room.
I search PubMed / databases directly
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I use AI tools to find papers
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I use a reference manager (Zotero/Mendeley/EndNote)
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I paste references by hand
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Barely at all yet
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Our hour together
What we’ll do — and the one rule that holds it together
~8 min
Tools & the grounding rule
Tools & the grounding rule
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~17 min
Search & synthesise
Search & synthesise
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~25 min
Manage your bibliography
Manage your bibliography
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~10 min
Build + verify
Build + verify
The one idea to hold all hour
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Meet your AI toolkit · click a tool
The tools we’ll use — and their limits
Part 1 · ~17 min
Finding & synthesising the literature
PICO & MeSH · grounded AI search · verify · synthesise · the matrix
Literature search · frame first
From clinical question to a search strategy
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P · Population
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I · Intervention / Exposure
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C · Comparison
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O · Outcome
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💬 Build the search string
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💬 Too few results
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💬 Too many results
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💬 Beyond the databases
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◆ Checkpoint …
Where to search — and how to trust it
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Why grounded tools
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The fake-citation rule
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Synthesise · not summarise
From matrix to synthesis
Summary (weak)
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Synthesis (strong)
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💬 Thematic
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💬 Development
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💬 Methodological
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💬 Debate / tension
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Accumulate · the literature matrix
Building a literature matrix
A synthesis table turns a pile of papers into a map of what’s known. Try it — the table is editable.
| Study | Design | Population | Intervention | Key finding & limitation |
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💬 Fill the matrix
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💬 Sort what matters
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💬 Weigh the evidence
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💬 Where is the opening
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◆ Checkpoint Did the AI read the paper, or guess from the title?
Part 2 · ~25 min
Managing your bibliography
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Manage · why bother
Why a reference manager is non-negotiable
One library
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Automatic deduplication
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Styles on demand
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Citations that renumber
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💬 Numbered · most clinical journals
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💬 Numbered · superscript
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💬 Author–date
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💬 Why this matters
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Recommended anchor · free & open-source
Zotero: capture, cite, and stay safe
One-click capture
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⚠ Retraction Watch alerts
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Cite as you write
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Sync & group libraries
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Manage · capture & organise
Organise it so it still works at 200 papers
Capture (Connector)
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Fix metadata
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File: collection + tags
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Annotate the PDF
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Structured note
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💬 Structure the library
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💬 Cross-cutting labels
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💬 Annotate as you read
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💬 Never lose a file
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Manage · cite as you write
Stop formatting references by hand
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💬 The writing loop
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💬 One dropdown
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💬 Find the exact CSL
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💬 Rescue a manual list
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Manage · pick your tool
Zotero vs Mendeley vs EndNote
Zotero
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Mendeley
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EndNote
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Manage · AI over your sources
Point AI at your own library
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💬 Ask across your PDFs
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💬 Extract into a table
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💬 Has it been challenged?
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💬 Screen at scale
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Manage · screening & the record
Keep the search reproducible
Records found
412
412
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Duplicates removed
−96
−96
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Titles screened
316
316
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Full texts read
66
66
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Included
18
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💬 Decide before you screen
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💬 The audit trail
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💬 Record what you did
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Four ways a bibliography goes wrong
Click each card for the clinical example.
The verify-before-you-cite pipeline
AI suggests a citation
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Find it in PubMed / Scopus
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Open & read the relevant part
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DOI resolves? Not retracted?
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Import & fix metadata
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💬 Does it resolve?
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💬 Is it still valid?
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💬 The quiet error
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💬 Before you submit
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Your build for the hour
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Three commitments + the disclosure rule
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Transparency
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Accountability
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Integrity
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COPE rule
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Interactive · tick as you go
Before-you-cite checklist
Take these with you
Prompt library
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Tool cheat-sheet
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Templates
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Integrity checklist
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All materials in one place
Slides, prompt library, templates & reading list.Scan the code, or go to: tinyurl.com/SeminarFPER2026
Terima kasih
Use AI to do more of your best thinking — never to do less of it.
Ts. Dr. Mohd Nor Akmal Khalid · akmal@ukm.edu.my · CAIT, FTSM, UKM