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AI Literature Review
Name a research question. Get a cited review in the chat: what the sources agree on, where they disagree, a source table rated by strength, and the gaps.
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What you get
- Text in the chatCopy it wherever you need it. Keep chatting to adjust the tone, length, or wording.
How it works
- Give askROI the research question and, if you like, the depth (a quick scan of 5 to 10 sources, a standard review of 10 to 25, or comprehensive), the source types, and the time window. It asks about these when they matter and you left them out.
- askROI's Run a literature review tool searches the web in several passes, reads each source for its finding, method, and limitations, and writes the review: summary, themes, disagreements and gaps, source table, and the limits of the review.
- Follow the citations to the sources, or keep chatting to widen the search, narrow the time window, or regroup the themes.
What people use it for
- Starting a paper or thesismap what is known before you write your own question.
- Evidence for a decisionsee what studies say about a policy or practice before you adopt it.
- Checking a consensusfind out how settled a question is and where researchers still disagree.
- Annotated source listsget each source's year, type, key finding, and strength in one table.
Questions
- Are the citations real?
- Every factual claim in the synthesis cites a source listed in the table, with a link. It never makes up a source, author, venue, or finding, and when a source cannot be accessed it says so. Read the key sources yourself before you cite them in your own work.
- How does it judge source strength?
- It labels each source by type, such as meta-analysis, peer-reviewed study, report, preprint, or journalism, notes the method and sample behind each finding, and rates its strength in the source table. A meta-analysis is not weighed the same as a blog post.
- Can it read paywalled papers?
- It works from what it can reach on the web. When it cannot read a source's full text, it says so, and the limitations section lists what was not searched or could not be accessed.
- How is this different from the AI Fact Checker?
- The fact checker takes specific claims and rates each one against sources. The literature review starts from an open question and surveys what the research as a whole says about it.
- What does it not do?
- It is not a formal systematic review or meta-analysis: it does not follow a registered protocol or pool data statistically. It reports disagreement between sources instead of averaging it away, so some questions end with "not settled".
