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Can I use Search+ for a literature review?

Yes, for the reading and synthesis work: put the papers as PDFs in one workspace and ask across them for themes, methods and disagreements. Each answer cites the papers it draws on. The writing and judgment stay yours.

Useful questions include "Which papers use the same method?", "Where do these studies disagree on the effect size?" and "Summarize what each paper says about the research gap." Each answer cites the papers and excerpts it draws on.

Use Workspace Context to set definitions and the evidence standard for the review. Check every citation before a claim goes into your text: AI answers can be incomplete or inaccurate.

Based on workspace chat, summaries and pattern questions in Search+, October 2026.

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Can Search+ find common themes across documents?
Yes. Ask Search+ for themes, patterns or repeated claims across a workspace, and it answers with citations to the documents each one appears in.
Can Search+ summarize several PDFs at once?
Yes. Ask for a summary of a whole workspace and Search+ summarizes across the documents in it, with citations to each source it draws on.
Can Search+ compare two documents?
Yes. Put both PDFs in a workspace and ask Search+ to compare them, and it points out where they agree and differ with a citation to each source.
How do I check where a claim in an answer comes from?
Open the inline citation next to the claim to read the excerpt from your document that it is based on, with a page or section when available.

Last reviewed 2026-10-11 by the Search+ team

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