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Literature Review

What the studies actually show on a question, graded by how far they converge.

4 credits·in-depth·about 3–6 min·9 domains

What it answers

The question Literature Review is built for

State the research question. It reads the body of studies, sets out what they show and where they disagree, names what nobody has studied, identifies the load-bearing studies the field rests on, and gives an honest bottom line with its confidence stated.

Who reaches for it

Clinicians, policy analysts, graduate students and anyone who needs the state of the evidence rather than the latest paper.

What comes back

7 sections, on every run

These are the headings the result renders, read from the same promise the form makes before you spend a credit. A section that depends on what the record holds is rendered when it can be and never promised here.

01

The Read

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What the Studies Show

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Where the Studies Disagree

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What Nobody Has Studied

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The Load-Bearing Studies

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The Honest Bottom Line

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Open Questions

What you give it

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The question — what should the research answer?
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What you are trying to establish
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Try it on: a subject you already hold an opinion about, so you can grade the result against what you know. Each one opens the form filled, in the General domain.
Broken-windows policing and crime since KellingFour-day week trials and productivity since the UK pilotDoes microfinance reduce poverty after the six RCTs
What it will not do

The lines it holds

It does not give medical, legal or investment advice. A finding is reported with its study named; a single study is never presented as a consensus, and a gap in the literature is reported as a gap.

Every claim carries its grade

A claim the scan could not source is marked as such rather than dressed up. How the grades work →

Verified or grounded
Reported or attributed
Contested
Open question
Where it runs

Available in 9 domains

A domain may name it in its own words and price it on its own terms; each row is what that domain shows.

General4 creditsDefense4 creditsFinance4 creditsEnergy4 creditsHealth4 creditsPolicy4 creditsTechnology4 creditsClimate4 creditsLearning4 credits
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Research already published as Literature Review

How many strike/interceptor rounds do Taiwan wargames project consumed?

Read the research →

The published wargame literature converges qualitatively — across at least two independently designed and adjudicated exercise series (CSIS's 2023 wargame and CNAS's 2022/2023 wargames) — on the finding that specific…

Defense · September 3, 2026
Roles that lean on it

8 role guides suggest it

Defense think tank fellowSecurity studies academicRegulatory affairs managerResearch editor, trade publicationUniversity professorAcademic / research librarianEdTech product managerCorporate L&D lead
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Run Literature Review on something you already know

The fastest way to judge the result is to pick a subject you know cold and read it against what you know. The scan names its credit cost before it runs.

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