Generative Artificial Intelligence for Automated Scientific Literature Analysis: A Review

Abstract

The rapid expansion of scientific publications across disciplines has made traditional literature review methodologies increasingly difficult to execute efficiently. Researchers must analyze thousands of articles, identify emerging trends, synthesize evidence, detect research gaps, and evaluate methodological quality within limited timeframes. Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI), powered by large language models, transformer architectures, retrieval-augmented generation, and intelligent knowledge representation techniques, has emerged as a transformative solution for automated scientific literature analysis. Unlike conventional text mining approaches that primarily perform keyword matching or statistical extraction, Generative AI demonstrates contextual understanding, semantic reasoning, automated summarization, question answering, citation synthesis, hypothesis generation, and research trend identification. These capabilities significantly improve the efficiency, scalability, and quality of scientific knowledge management while reducing researcher workload. This review systematically examines recent developments in Generative AI for automated scientific literature analysis by synthesizing evidence from the provided contemporary literature covering artificial intelligence, workflow automation, cloud intelligence, cybersecurity, financial AI, process mining, enterprise automation, reinforcement learning, digital transformation, and intelligent computing infrastructures. The review develops a comprehensive analytical framework describing the complete literature-analysis pipeline, including literature acquisition, document preprocessing, semantic embedding, knowledge extraction, contextual reasoning, automated synthesis, evidence validation, and research recommendation generation. Furthermore, the study critically evaluates technological enablers such as transformer-based architectures, cloud-edge computing infrastructures, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic AI, workflow automation, and scalable enterprise AI systems that collectively support intelligent literature analysis (Krishnan & Bhat, 2025; Kumar, 2025; Venkiteela, 2026). The review identifies significant opportunities in accelerating systematic reviews, improving interdisciplinary knowledge discovery, reducing information overload, supporting evidence-based decision making, and enabling continuous scientific monitoring. Simultaneously, important challenges remain concerning hallucination, citation reliability, explainability, reproducibility, privacy, governance, computational scalability, and ethical deployment. The findings suggest that future literature analysis platforms will increasingly integrate Generative AI with retrieval systems, human-in-the-loop verification, autonomous research agents, and standardized governance frameworks to produce trustworthy, scalable, and transparent scientific intelligence. This review contributes a structured conceptual framework that integrates recent advances in Generative AI with automated scientific literature analysis while identifying future research opportunities for developing reliable AI-assisted scientific discovery ecosystems.