Multi-Phase Literature Review Workflow

Orchestrate a rigorous, citation-grounded literature review across phases: angles to briefs, parallel paper collection, taxonomic synthesis, direction papers, and self-review loops. Every claim in a final document is traceable back to a paper-card.

When to Use

• Building a corpus-grounded review paper or a set of direction documents
• Multi-strand reviews where breadth + depth must be coordinated across distinct angles (e.g. tools strand, data strand, science strand)
• Reviews where claim-to-evidence traceability matters (grant lit reviews, position papers, white papers)
• Iterative reviews where new papers, refined angles, or updated synthesis must roll forward without losing prior work

When NOT to Use

• Original research IMRAD writing. Use manuscript:manuscript-writing.
• Peer review of a submitted manuscript. Use manuscript:paper-review.
• Journal formatting. Use manuscript:manuscript-formatting.

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