For researchers and academics

Fifty papers. One review, every claim cited.

Bring your papers and articles (PDF, Word documents or scanned). Pull findings onto a research board, map the evidence and the gaps, and draft a literature review where every claim points back to the page it came from.

Reading, markup, the board and search are free. Pro is โ‚น499 a month, AI included.

What you get

Time

Read across fifty papers at once.

Ask across the whole project, and compare studies side by side in a Study Comparison Matrix.

Confidence

Every claim, back to its page.

Answers come from your papers and show the page. What cannot be checked against them is marked.

Outcome

Write it with the sources in place.

A literature review template drafts the structure; every line keeps its citation as you edit.

What you can make

Pick what you want to make.

Choose your papers, choose a tool, go. Everything it makes points back to the page.

Literature review

From fifty papers to a cited draft.

Pick the template, choose the papers, go. Themes, agreements and disagreements, each line cited to its page. One of 23 report templates.

  • Every claim cited
  • Edit and export
  • Up to 3 files, 200 pages per run
Low-dose effects: a review
AgreementFive of seven trials report a dose effect. p. 2
DisagreementRao finds none below 5 mg. p. 4
GapNo study covers over-65s.

Evidence and gap maps

See what supports what.

Findings on a research board, linked by what supports, contradicts or extends them. Map a whole paper in one tap.

  • Evidence map
  • Theory map
  • Research gaps
Dose effectRao 2020Kim 2018Lind 2021Meta 2022
supportscontradicts

Study Comparison Matrix

Studies, side by side.

Design, sample, outcome and limitations for each paper in one table, every cell with its page.

  • Paper comparison
  • Evidence matrix
Rao 2020Lind 2021
DesignRCTCohort
Sample4121,280
EffectNone < 5 mgReversed > 65

Ask your papers

Questions across the whole project.

Ask in your own words; the answer comes from your papers and shows the page.

  • Page citations
  • Unverifiable marked
Which papers measure outcomes past 12 months?
Three: Kim, Lind and the 2022 meta-analysis. p. 6 p. 11

Research Gap Analysis

Find what nobody has studied.

A report of gaps and open questions across your papers, each one pointing to the evidence around it.

  • Gap analysis
  • Open questions
Over-65sNo studiesGap
Long-term > 2 yrsOne studyPartial
Low doseCoveredMet

Explain Material

Get into a new field fast.

A short lesson on a paper or a method you have not met before, every point cited.

  • 5 or 15 min
  • Every point cited
Mixed-effects modelsp. 3p. 5

Audio Explainer

Keep up on the move.

Turn a paper into an audio explainer: one narrator or two voices, as an MP3.

  • Natural voices
  • Two voices
  • MP3
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08:05

How researchers use it

Collect. Connect. Write.

  1. 01

    Collect

    Pull findings out as you read.

    Highlight a result and extract it as a finding. It keeps the paper and the page it came from.

  2. 02

    Connect

    Map the evidence and the gaps.

    Link findings by what supports, contradicts or extends them. The gaps show up as the places with no links.

  3. 03

    Write

    Draft the review with citations in place.

    The literature review template turns the map into prose. Every claim keeps its page as you edit and export.

Audio Explainer

Keep up on the move.

Turn a paper into an Audio Explainer: one narrator or a two-voice discussion, as an MP3. Three a month free, 60 a month on Pro.

Specialisations

Whatever your field.

Pick your field; the explanations, the examples and the report templates follow it.

  • Life sciences
  • Medicine & health
  • Physical sciences
  • Chemistry
  • Engineering
  • Computer science
  • Social sciences
  • Psychology
  • Economics
  • Humanities

What's free

Free is a real plan.

Free

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  • Reading, markup and search
  • The board
  • Up to 20 files
  • 3 audio lessons a month
  • AI with your own key
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Pro

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a month

  • Unlimited material
  • AI credits included
  • 60 audio lessons a month
  • Redaction
  • API access
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Your literature review, with every claim cited.

PlasmaText helps you read and organise your own sources. Check every citation against the original before you publish.