Choose a task you can check.
Research support is most useful when the question and evidence boundary are clear. Decide what would count as an answer before collecting more material. A scoping resource can identify ambiguous terms and exclusions; a screening resource can apply your stated criteria; an evidence mapper can show which supplied source supports each claim. None of these steps makes an absent source exist or guarantees that the supplied material is representative.
Narrow the question
Use a question scoper when the topic is broad. Define the population, period or situation of interest before asking for a confident conclusion.
Inspect the evidence
Use a mapper or screening assistant when you have material. Preserve source identifiers, conflicting findings and reasons for uncertain inclusion.
Bring these inputs.
- A focused question, intended use and explicit inclusion or exclusion rules.
- Authorized source excerpts with stable identifiers and enough context to interpret their claims.
Know what good looks like.
Open the cited source and compare the claim with its actual wording and context. Check that disagreement, limitations and missing evidence survive the summary.
When to pause
If only abstracts or excerpts are supplied, keep conclusions within that boundary. An inaccessible full text must not be presented as reviewed.
Connected resources
Find a starting point.
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Source Evidence Mapper
Compare a research question with supplied source excerpts and build a claim-to-evidence ledger that keeps disagreement, uncertainty and missing support visible.
- Instruction package · Published
Research Question Scoper
Turn an open-ended topic into a bounded research question, explicit exclusions and a practical evidence-gathering plan before you start collecting sources.
- Instruction package · Published
Study Methods Reader
Explain a supplied study’s design, comparison groups and measurement limits in plain language, separating what the study observed from claims it cannot support.
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Literature Screening Assistant
Apply your explicit inclusion and exclusion rules to supplied titles and abstracts, recording criterion-level reasons and uncertain cases for human review.