Speed up your literature review without skipping the reading
Screen papers faster, compare methods, and keep a page reference for every claim. A practical workflow for researchers.
A literature review is mostly sorting: which papers matter, what they found, and how they did it. askPDF can take a lot of that sorting off your plate, so your reading time goes to the papers that deserve it.
Screen papers with three questions
For each new paper, ask the same three questions and note the answers:
- What question does this paper try to answer?
- What method and sample did the authors use?
- What is the main finding, in one sentence?
412 participants, recruited through stratified sampling across three universities.p. 6
Compare methods side by side
Keep papers on the same topic in one folder. Ask each one about its limitations; the cited pages make it easy to build a comparison table you can trust.
Keep the page with every claim
Because answers cite their pages, your notes come with references already attached. When you write, you are citing, not searching.
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