Free literature review tool
AI Literature Review Protocol Builder
Turn a research question, database plan, criteria, and screening stages into a reusable protocol plus stage-specific Claude prompts. The tool runs entirely in your browser.
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Interactive workspace
Generated artifact
Protocol markdown
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Privacy note: this tool is client-side only. Inputs stay in your browser unless you copy, download, or paste the output somewhere else.
How to use this tool
- Enter the review question and corpus boundary.
- Choose scholarly databases and add field-specific sources.
- Write inclusion and exclusion criteria.
- Select screening stages and evidence fields.
- Generate the protocol and Claude prompt pack.
- Copy or download the markdown for your project notebook.
FAQ
Does this tool search PubMed, OpenAlex, or arXiv?
No. It prepares a protocol and prompts. Run the actual searches in the scholarly databases and record the search strings, dates, filters, and result counts.
Can I use the output as a systematic review protocol?
Use it as a draft aid, not a replacement for review-team judgment, registration requirements, or institutional methods review.
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Literature review protocolLit ReviewA source-first workflow for using Claude in a literature review without losing PRISMA discipline, search provenance, or human judgment.Evidence synthesisSystematic ReviewsA PRISMA-aligned, human-in-the-loop approach to using Claude in evidence synthesis without hiding search and screening decisions.Scholarly stackDatabasesHow to pair Claude with primary scholarly infrastructure instead of asking a chat model to become the database.
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