Turn scientific papers into an evidence brief
Find papers, extract evidence, compare claims, and produce a concise research brief with confidence levels.
Setup time
2 hours
Time saved
4-10 hours
Best for
Researchers, Consultants, Health teams, B2B writers
Tools
Elicit, Consensus, SciSpace, NotebookLM, ChatGPT
Overview
This workflow is useful when a decision needs more than a web summary and should be grounded in research papers.
When to use this workflow
Tools you need
Elicit
Research
AI research assistant for finding papers, extracting study details, and comparing evidence.
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AI search
AI search engine focused on scientific papers and evidence-backed answers.
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Research
Research platform for reading papers, understanding methods, and extracting literature review notes.
Visit websiteNotebookLM
Research
AI research notebook for grounding summaries, briefs, and Q&A in uploaded sources.
Visit websiteChatGPT
AI assistant
General AI assistant for drafting, reasoning, rewriting, and structured content generation.
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Frame the research question
Write a narrow question, inclusion criteria, geography, time range, and what decision the answer should support.
Tool used
NotebookLM
Expected output
A scoped research question.
Find candidate papers
Search for relevant papers and filter by study type, date, sample, and relevance.
Tool used
Elicit
Expected output
A shortlist of useful papers.
Check consensus and disagreement
Compare claims across papers and identify where evidence agrees, conflicts, or stays weak.
Tool used
Consensus
Expected output
A claim-level evidence map.
Extract methods and caveats
Use paper reading tools to pull methods, limitations, populations, and measurement details.
Tool used
SciSpace
Expected output
Evidence notes with caveats.
Write the brief
Ask AI to synthesize findings with confidence levels, caveats, and implications for the decision.
Tool used
ChatGPT
Expected output
A decision-ready evidence brief.
Prompt templates
Evidence synthesis
Create an evidence brief from these paper notes. Include answer, confidence level, evidence table, caveats, disagreements, and practical implications. Notes: [paste]Claim checker
Review these claims against the evidence notes. Mark each claim as supported, partially supported, unsupported, or needs expert review. Claims and notes: [paste]Automation ideas
- Maintain a paper tracker by research question
- Create reusable evidence templates
- Flag low-confidence findings for expert review
Common mistakes
- Treating one paper as consensus
- Ignoring sample size and population differences
- Removing caveats to make the conclusion sound cleaner
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