Literature Review & Evidence Kit
Getting from a question to evidence you can defend, without the open web wandering into the answer.
Searching published research, screening at volume, covering the questions no academic database answers, and analysing the numbers once you have them.
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Questions about this stack
Consensus or Elicit?
Consensus for a question, Elicit for a corpus. Consensus is the faster route to whether a claim is actually supported, with a meter across the studies it found. Elicit is built for screening hundreds of papers against inclusion criteria and pulling the same field out of each — which is a systematic review, not a search.
Why is Scite here alongside Consensus and Elicit?
Because evaluating evidence requires knowing how later research judged a study. Scite tracks Smart Citations to show whether succeeding papers supported, contradicted, or merely mentioned the underlying findings.
Do I need Julius AI if the other three already summarise findings?
Only once you have extracted numbers and need to do something with them. Summarising is where the other three stop; running a regression, reshaping a dataset or producing the chart is where Julius starts. A qualitative review never reaches it.