Features
Spot old, thin or second-hand sources before your examiners do.
The citation gap and recency check looks across a whole chapter: how old your sources are, how many come from reputable journals, and where you cite a theory through someone else's summary instead of the original.
What it looks like
What you get
- A year-by-year view of your sources shows when a chapter leans on old literature.
- Secondary citations are flagged, with the primary source to read instead.
- See at a glance whether a chapter relies on too few journal articles.
How it works
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Step 1: Pick a document
Choose a chapter or article.
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Step 2: See the year spread
A chart per chapter shows source ages, the share older than ten years and reputable journals.
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Step 3: Find the primary source
Secondary citations are flagged with candidate primary sources.
More features in this group
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- One claim, all the evidence: for, partly for, and against. The evidence map takes a single claim and lays out how many papers support it, partly support it or contradict it, each with its quote. It also points you to the papers that disagree, so your chapter can address them instead of hiding from them.
- A literature review matrix that fills itself, with receipts. Pick the papers you're reviewing. PaperQED extracts aim, method, sample, location, main result and limitations into a table, and every cell links to the quote it came from.
- See how the papers in your library connect. The citation graph draws who cites whom across your library, so clusters, bridges and isolated papers become visible at a glance.
- Trace a concept back to where it started. Seminal papers follows the citation trail behind a concept to the original work, so you cite the source an idea came from, not the fifth paper that repeated it.
- Read papers faster, at the level you're at. The paper reader highlights the research question, method, main findings and limitations, with a side panel to jump between them. The level-based explainer walks you through the paper for undergraduate, master's or researcher level, and every point links back to the paragraph it explains.
- One library for every source, ready for the tools you already use. Keep your sources in a personal library with a folder per project. Import BibTeX, RIS, DOI, URL or PDF, format citations in APA 7, IEEE, Harvard, Vancouver and thousands of other CSL styles, and export again when you need to.
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