Literature Review Evidence Matrix Builder
Organize up to 12 research sources by question, study method, reported finding and evidence limits. This is a manual source comparison, not AI-generated literature or a citation-verification service. Your entries stay in this browser session.
Enter source information you have checked
Use author/year shorthand or an exact reference from the paper; copy the original link and write an actual limitation. Don't paste identifiable, restricted or confidential participant records.
Synthesis is more than collecting citations
The Literature Review Planning Guide demonstrates how to compare studies with different methods, findings and limitations, without creating fictitious citations or claims. For a source you have not verified, use AI Claim Verification Tracker to organize manual checks; for final bibliography formatting, choose a relevant tool from Citation Generators. This worksheet does not format a full reference list or issue real source validity certificates.
Purdue OWL's literature review guide calls for synthesis and critical evaluation rather than one summary paragraph per paper. The University of Toronto's research guide links to synthesis-matrix examples and planning tutorials. This tool helps collect your evidence for those tasks; it does not draft unsupported conclusions.