Rixx helps you search for relevant sources, analyze uploaded papers, compare findings, preserve citations, and turn the reviewed evidence into tables, notes, charts, or an exportable report.
It is designed for assisted literature exploration and synthesis. It is not a replacement for a formal systematic-review protocol, expert appraisal, or independent verification of every paper.
What an AI literature review assistant should help you do
A literature review involves more than summarizing PDFs. You need to define the question, find relevant work, understand methods and limitations, compare results, track conflicting evidence, and preserve enough source context to verify every important statement.
Rixx brings those activities into one workspace:
- cited web search for source discovery;
- PDF, document, image, and link analysis;
- contextual follow-up questions;
- visible queries, steps, citations, source panels, and snippets;
- evidence tables and paper comparisons;
- charts and Mermaid diagrams where useful;
- PDF, Word, and Markdown generation;
- shareable research conversations;
- memory and private Skills for repeatable workflows.
What you can produce
A paper-comparison table
Compare papers across fields such as:
- research question;
- population or dataset;
- methodology;
- sample size;
- variables or intervention;
- reported result;
- limitations;
- publication date;
- source link.
Ask Rixx to use “not reported” when a field is missing instead of inferring a value.
A thematic evidence map
Group papers by theme, method, result, population, or disagreement. Keep the papers and supporting passages connected to each theme.
A research-gap outline
Identify areas that appear underexplored, while clearly distinguishing between a genuine evidence gap and a source that was not found or could not be accessed.
A cited research brief
Turn reviewed findings into a structured overview with scope, methods, major themes, conflicting evidence, limitations, and next questions.
Visual summaries
Create a chart from reviewed values or a Mermaid diagram showing relationships between concepts, papers, methods, or findings. Check every extracted value before using it.
A practical workflow
1. Define a focused question
Include the population, topic or intervention, comparison, outcome, geography, and timeframe where relevant.
Example:
Find recent research on how four-day workweeks affect employee productivity and wellbeing. Focus on empirical studies published since 2020. Separate controlled studies, observational studies, and employer reports.
2. Search and inspect the sources
Review the visible searches and citations. Confirm that each result is a real, relevant source. A citation proves that a source was referenced; it does not automatically prove that the source supports every word of the summary.
3. Upload the important papers
Add the PDFs or documents you want to study closely. Ask questions limited to the uploaded material when the answer must stay grounded in a defined source set.
4. Extract consistent fields
Choose the fields before comparing papers. Use the same definitions and units across every row.
5. Challenge the synthesis
Ask:
- Which findings are supported by only one paper?
- Which papers use different definitions?
- Where do results conflict?
- Which limitations could change the conclusion?
- Which claims rely on abstracts rather than full text?
- What could not be verified?
6. Export a reviewable output
Generate a Word, PDF, or Markdown research brief, or share the complete Rixx conversation with a supervisor or collaborator.
Example prompts
Compare papers
Compare the uploaded papers by question, sample, method, variables, main findings, and limitations. Quote or cite the supporting section for every extracted field. Use “not reported” instead of guessing.
Find disagreements
Identify where these papers disagree. Explain whether the disagreement may result from different populations, definitions, methods, periods, or data quality.
Build an evidence table
Create an evidence table from the uploaded papers. Keep factual extraction separate from interpretation and add a column for verification notes.
Review the draft
Audit this literature-review draft. Flag claims without direct support, overgeneralizations, missing counterevidence, and places where the source only partially supports the wording.
Important limitations
- Rixx is not a PRISMA-grade systematic-review platform.
- It does not guarantee exhaustive database coverage or complete recall.
- Paywalled or inaccessible full text may limit analysis.
- OCR, tables, equations, and complex layouts can be misread.
- Generated summaries and citations require human verification.
- Deep Research is coming soon; the current workflow is user-directed.
- Follow your institution’s authorship, disclosure, and AI-use rules.
Frequently asked questions
Can Rixx find research papers?
Rixx can search the public web with citations and analyze papers or links you provide. Coverage depends on public availability and source accessibility.
Can I upload multiple PDFs?
Yes. Supported PDFs and documents can be added to the research context and compared through follow-up questions.
Can Rixx write a systematic review?
Rixx can assist with discovery, extraction, comparison, synthesis, and drafting. It does not replace formal systematic-review methods, database strategies, duplicate screening, risk-of-bias assessment, or expert review.
Does Rixx create citations?
Rixx keeps source citations connected to answers. Verify whether your required bibliography style is supported before relying on it for APA, MLA, Chicago, or another formal style.
Can it identify research gaps?
It can surface apparent gaps within the evidence reviewed. Confirm that a claimed gap is not caused by incomplete search coverage or inaccessible sources.
Can I export the review?
Yes. Rixx supports PDF, Word, and Markdown outputs and full-chat sharing.
Keep every conclusion connected to its source
Search, compare, question, and export the literature without reducing the process to an uncheckable summary.