You already use AI for your literature review. So do your colleagues, and so, often, does your supervisor. The question is no longer whether you are allowed.

The question is whether you can defend what you wrote. Whether every piece of information you reported is really what the source claims. Whether every reference in your bibliography actually exists, is academic, and was not invented by a model. In early 2026, one published paper in 277 carries at least one fabricated reference. Three years ago it was one in 2,828.

I built this kit so you can work fast and still sign your name to the result.

WHAT YOU GET

1. The AI tool stack. Eight tools, one per stage of the work: SciSpace, Consensus, Elicit, Julius, NotebookLM, Grammarly, Napkin, Gamma. What each one actually does, what to use it for, and the real limits of each free tier.

2. The trust map. The eight stages of research, each with an honest mark for how far you can delegate, plus the confidentiality rules almost everyone breaks without noticing.

3. The DOI test. The three-step verification that takes under a minute per reference, with a printable checklist for your bibliography.

4. The disclosure kit. The declaration sentence to copy and adapt, plus the table of where COPE, ICMJE, Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, Taylor and Francis and IEEE each want it.

5. The full session. The complete recording of the live workshop of 14 September 2026, with the eight tools demonstrated on screen, and the slide deck.
   

WHO THIS IS FOR

PhD candidates and early-career researchers in economics, management, social sciences and education who are writing a literature review, preparing a submission, or about to review for the first time. It assumes no technical background and every tool in it has a usable free tier.

WHAT IT CHANGES

→ You pick the right tool for the stage you are at, instead of using one tool badly for everything
→ You catch a fabricated reference before a reviewer does
→ You know exactly what to declare, and where your target journal wants it
→ You stop uploading things you should never have uploaded
→ You keep a record of how you worked, which is your answer if the work is ever questioned

Drop your email below and the kit lands in your inbox within two minutes.