Literature review template
Name a research question. Get a cited review of where sources agree and disagree.
Nothing sends until you start, and you can change anything afterwards.
What you get
- Text in the chat Copy it wherever you need it. Keep chatting to adjust the tone, length, or wording.
Templates
Screen time and sleep review
- A quick scan of six peer-reviewed sources, saved as a review in your Library
- The main disagreement named: a link to later sleep onset, but not clearly to sleep duration
- A warning that one large analysis was mostly about adolescents, not young children
Workplace mindfulness review
- A review with a source by source strength table
- A cautious answer: short-term stress falls on average, with moderate to low confidence
- Says plainly it is a targeted narrative search with its own ratings, not a systematic review
Urban trees and summer heat review
- A clear answer first: trees lower local heat, most clearly through shade and cooler surfaces
- What is less settled: neighborhood air temperature, hot nights and health outcomes
- Five peer-reviewed sources with DOI links, and no pooled estimate it could not verify
How it works
- Start from a template below, or 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
- A literature review example for your topic see how a review of your own question is laid out.
- Starting a paper or thesis map what is known before you write your own question.
- Evidence for a decision see what studies say about a policy or practice before you adopt it.
- Checking a consensus find out how settled a question is and where researchers still disagree.
- Annotated source lists get 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".