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What ScholarIQ does

This site is the open reference layer — the papers, researchers, journals and topics themselves. ScholarIQ is the tool that works across them: it takes a research question through search, screening, full-text review and reporting in one place, and keeps every output tied back to the article it came from.

The four stages

A literature review is the same four steps whether it takes a week or a year. ScholarIQ is built around them rather than around a document editor.

  1. Search and discovery. Start from a question, a citation or a source document, and turn it into a structured search — expanding terms and following citations outward rather than guessing keywords.
  2. Title and abstract screening. Studies are prioritised so the most likely includes surface first, with the reviewer's decision the one that counts.
  3. Full-text review and extraction. Work through the PDFs, tag studies, and capture findings and variables in a consistent shape.
  4. Reporting and exports. Evidence tables, PRISMA-ready documentation and exports for whatever comes next.

Why traceability is the point

An answer you cannot check is not evidence. ScholarIQ's summaries and extractions stay attached to the article they were drawn from, so a reviewer can follow any claim back to its source — which is also what makes the output defensible to somebody who was not in the room when it was produced.

That is the same standard this site holds itself to: every figure on it is derived from the published corpus rather than written down by hand.

What this site adds

The atlas on this domain currently publishes 199,898 pages of public research metadata, cross-linked so you can move from a paper to its authors, their institutions, the journal and the topic without a search box.

  • Topics — the subject areas the literature is organised into.
  • Papers — individual articles, with authors, journal and citation counts.
  • Researchers — who publishes in an area, and where.
  • Institutions and journals — the institutions and venues behind the work.

It is free, needs no account, and is a reasonable place to start scoping a question before committing a review team to it.

Trying it

There is a free trial — see pricing for what each plan includes, or start one. ScholarIQ is a product of PICO Portal.