1. What Bibliomatica is
Bibliomatica is a guided workspace for running a complete bibliometric study. A bibliometric study analyzes a body of published research to reveal what a field looks like: how it has grown, who its most influential authors and journals are, how its ideas cluster into themes, and where the gaps and frontiers sit.
Doing this well normally means stitching together several stubborn tools and losing weeks to manual work. Bibliomatica replaces that work with one continuous pathway of seven phases, from finding a topic to exporting a finished manuscript.
The problem it solves
A serious bibliometric review usually runs into three walls:
- The plumbing. Exports from different databases disagree on their columns, author names appear in a dozen spellings, and the corpus has to be merged, deduplicated, and cleaned by hand.
- The tooling gap. The standard analysis software is rigorous but silent, and it expects you to know R. The tools that write fluent text make the numbers up.
- The trust problem. When a general chatbot is asked to count citations or compute an h-index, it produces confident figures that are often invented. Those numbers can reach a reviewer with no way to catch them.
The core promise
Bibliomatica draws a hard line between two jobs.
- Verified software computes every number. Citation counts, h-indices, network metrics, and every statistic in your study are calculated by established research software, never by AI.
- AI writes only the words around those numbers. The AI drafts your methods, results, and discussion, but it is structurally unable to invent a figure. Numbers enter the text as placeholders bound to real values, and an automated check blocks delivery of anything it cannot trace to a source.
The result is a study you can defend line by line, where every claim is traceable and every step is reproducible.
Who it is for
Bibliomatica is built for anyone who needs a rigorous, reviewer-ready bibliometric analysis:
- Postgraduate students running a systematic literature review or a bibliometric thesis chapter
- Academics and research teams mapping a field for a review article
- Supervisors who want their students to produce defensible, reproducible work
- Any researcher who wants the speed of AI without the risk of fabricated evidence
What you can produce
By the end of the workflow you take home a full set of study documents, including:
- A registration-ready protocol and search strategy
- A merged, deduplicated, and cleaned corpus with a complete audit trail
- The full bibliometric analysis, with publication-standard figures and network maps
- A journal-ready Word manuscript with tables, figures, and a PRISMA flow diagram
2. How it works at a glance
Three movements
Everything you do in Bibliomatica fits into a story you can tell in one breath.
- Plan. Find a research gap worth filling, or a rising trend worth mapping. Turn it into a registration-ready protocol and a search strategy.
- Analyze. Merge your database exports into one corpus, clean it with AI assistance, and run the full analysis on established research software.
- Publish. Draft the manuscript section by section, with every statistic pre-bound to a verified value, then export a Word document ready for submission.
The seven phases
Those three movements are delivered through seven disciplined phases. Each one produces real, named files that flow into the next.
| Phase | Name | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Foundation and Planning | Find your topic, write the protocol, build the search strategy |
| 2 | Search | Run your database searches with exact export instructions |
| 3 | Merge and Deduplicate | Combine exports into one corpus and remove duplicates |
| 4 | Filter | Apply inclusion and exclusion criteria, with a logged reason for every removal |
| 5 | Data Cleaning | Normalize author names, affiliations, and keywords against trusted sources |
| 6 | Bibliometric Analysis | Compute the metrics and build the network maps |
| 7 | Writing and Reporting | Draft the manuscript and export a journal-ready document |
The golden rule
One principle runs through the whole product: AI never computes a number. Deterministic research software does. Keep that in mind and the design of every phase makes sense.
3. What you need before you start
Bibliomatica runs entirely in your web browser. There is nothing to install. No R, no Java, no desktop software.
Here is the short checklist.
You need:
- A Bibliomatica account (a free sign-in, described below)
- A Pro subscription to run studies (see Plans and billing)
- A research question or topic area to explore
- Access to the databases you plan to search (for example a university subscription to Web of Science or Scopus)
You will want, at some point:
- A free API key for at least one data source. Some sources, such as OpenAlex, ask for a free key to use their data. Bibliomatica walks you through requesting one when a phase needs it.
- Access to an AI chat you already use, such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. Bibliomatica writes the prompts, and you run them in your own chat.
You do not need:
- Any statistics software installed on your machine
- Coding skills or knowledge of R
- A separate account for every tool. Bibliomatica brings the workflow together in one place.
A note on optional in-app assistance: a few steps can do work for you inside the app (for example, reviewing borderline duplicates or screening records). Those steps use your own AI provider key, stored securely in your vault. They are always optional, and you can complete a study without them by running the generated prompts in your own chat instead.
4. Getting started
Step 1. Create your account
Sign in with a secure sign-in link sent to your email, or with your Google account. There is no password to remember. Sessions are held securely on the server, so signing out cuts off access straight away.
Step 2. Set your access context
In Settings, choose the access context that matches how you use Bibliomatica. This is not a cosmetic preference. It decides which source is used to verify author identities during cleaning.
- Academic. Non-commercial research, the default for university and public-institution work. Enables author verification through ORCID's public data.
- Commercial. Industry or revenue-generating use. Author identity is verified through OpenAlex's open data instead, in line with ORCID's licensing terms.
- Institutional. Your institution holds ORCID or database memberships. You can add your member credentials to the vault for the richest data.
You can change this later if your situation changes, for example if you move from a university to industry.
Step 3. Add API keys when a phase asks for them
You do not have to set up everything up front. Bibliomatica tells you exactly when a key is needed and why. When a phase requires one, it points you to the right card in API Keys and, where relevant, gives you a one-click template to request a free key.
There are two kinds of keys, both explained in Core concepts:
- Data-source keys connect Bibliomatica to research databases and registries.
- AI-provider keys power the optional in-app assists.
Step 4. Create your first project
From the Projects page, select Create your first project. A project is one bibliometric study. Give it a topic area and a few starting details, and Bibliomatica opens the seven-phase workflow for you. Everything you produce, and every decision you make, stays scoped to that project.
5. Core concepts
A handful of ideas explain how the whole product fits together.
Projects
A project is one bibliometric study. Every output, every decision, and every audit record lives inside it. You can run as many projects as you like, and switch between them at any time.
The phase pipeline
The seven phases are shown as a pipeline. Each phase produces named files, and later phases need those files as their input. A phase stays locked until the phases before it have produced what it depends on.
This is deliberate. It means you cannot accidentally analyze a corpus you have not cleaned, or write up results you have not computed. The pipeline keeps your study in a valid order, and the trail of files is what makes the whole thing reproducible.
Your documents
As you work, Bibliomatica generates real files you keep: your protocol, your search tracker, your merged and cleaned corpus, audit logs, analysis outputs, figures, and your final manuscript. Nothing happens in a black box. You can see, download, and check every artifact. Understanding your outputs describes the main ones.
The credential vault
The vault is where your keys live. It holds two kinds:
- Data-provider keys for research sources such as OpenAlex, ORCID, ROR, Lens.org, and Dimensions.
- AI-provider keys for the optional in-app assists, from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google.
Every key is encrypted at rest and only your signed-in session can unlock it. You manage all of this from the API Keys page.
Reporting standards, built in
Bibliomatica is designed for reviewer scrutiny. Four widely used reporting standards are woven into the workflow from the first step, not bolted on at the end:
- PRISMA 2020, the reporting framework for systematic reviews
- SPAR-4-SLR, a step-by-step protocol for systematic literature reviews
- Donthu et al. (2021), the standard guide for conducting bibliometric analysis
- TCCM, a framework for structuring a future-research agenda
Each is explained in the Glossary.
The verified-numbers guarantee
This is the founding idea, worth repeating. Every statistic in your study is computed by established research software or drawn from verified data files. During writing, numbers enter your manuscript as placeholders bound to those files, and an automatic audit blocks any figure it cannot trace back to a source. The AI writes the interpretation. It cannot invent the evidence.
6. Navigating the workspace
The workspace is simple to move around once you know the four areas.
The sidebar
On the left you will find:
- Projects. Your studies. Open one to see its phases and progress.
- Settings. Your account, your access context, and a summary of your vault.
- API Keys. Add, update, and remove your data and AI keys. Marked as your Vault.
- Help. A quick reference to the phases, shortcuts, and support.
The chevron on the sidebar edge collapses it to a slim icon rail when you want more room.
The top bar
Across the top:
- Project switcher. The project name is a switcher. Click it to jump between studies.
- Search. Find projects and phases from anywhere.
- Account menu. Your profile and sign-out.
The status line
Along the bottom, a status line always shows the active project, the current phase, your progress, and how many keys are in your vault. It follows you as you move through the phases so you never lose your place.
Shortcuts
- Command menu: press Command and K (or Control and K) to search projects and phases from anywhere.
- Escape: closes the command menu, any open menu, and dialogs.
7. The seven phases in detail
Each phase below follows the same shape: what it is for, what you do, what you need, and what you take away. The phases run in order, and each unlocks the next by producing the files it depends on.
A quick word on how the AI steps work throughout. In most phases, Bibliomatica writes a precise, study-aware prompt. You run that prompt in your own AI chat, then paste the response back into the app, which reads it into a structured form. This keeps your study out of anyone else's context and lets you use whichever AI you prefer. A few steps can also run inside the app using your own provider key.
Phase 1 — Foundation and Planning
What it is for. To choose a topic worth studying and turn it into a complete, registration-ready plan.
What you do. Pick one of two ways in:
- Gap-based. Mine highly cited papers for the research gaps their authors have explicitly flagged as needing future work, then pick the gap you want to fill.
- Trend-based. Explore trending topics with live data covering hundreds of millions of scholarly works. This is an interactive analytical view. Each candidate topic comes with a five-year publication curve, a growth badge, its top journals and authors, its leading institutions and countries, related topics, and a research-velocity measure. None of these numbers are produced by AI. They are computed from live source data.
Once you have a topic, Bibliomatica helps you generate your protocol, refine your search strings with a Boolean-syntax check for each database, and set up a search tracker.
What you need. A topic area to start from. For the trend-based path, a data-source key (Bibliomatica prompts you if one is missing).
What you get.
- Your complete protocol, search strategy, and search tracker as Word and Excel files you keep
- A registration-ready package for the platform you choose: OSF, INPLASY, Research Registry, or protocols.io
- A record of the gap or trend you selected, carried forward to help write your introduction later
Phase 2 — Search
What it is for. To run your searches in the actual databases and bring the results back cleanly.
What you do. Follow step-by-step export walkthroughs for each database you committed to: Web of Science, Scopus, Lens.org, and Dimensions. Each walkthrough gives you the exact fields, formats, and settings to use so your export carries everything the later phases need. You then upload your raw export files, which are staged and validated before anything reaches your corpus.
What you need. Access to the databases you plan to search. The workflow adapts to the subscriptions you actually have, so you are never sent to a source you cannot use.
What you get. Your raw export files, checked and staged, ready to merge.
Phase 3 — Merge and Deduplicate
What it is for. To combine exports from different databases into one clean corpus and remove duplicate records.
What you do. Bibliomatica merges your files for you. Merging runs on Bibliometrix's own parsers, the same engine behind published bibliometric research, so your data is read the way the field reads it. A field-coverage matrix then shows you how complete your corpus is, and flags missing data before it can skew your analysis. It pays special attention to cited references, which several later analyses depend on.
Duplicates are found in seconds, right in your browser, by matching on DOI and on record metadata, with AI assistance offered on borderline pairs, such as a preprint versus its final version. Every decision is logged so you can review it, and the final deduplicated corpus and audit files are produced by the analysis service when you seal.
What you need. Your validated export files from Phase 2.
What you get.
- A single merged corpus
- A merge report describing coverage and any warnings
- A deduplicated corpus
- A deduplication audit that lists every removed record with its reason
Phase 4 — Filter
What it is for. To apply your inclusion and exclusion criteria and narrow the corpus to the records your study is actually about.
What you do. Set filters drawn directly from your protocol: document type, language, and year range. As you adjust them, a live counter shows how many records remain. For borderline cases, you can turn on an optional AI relevance screen. It is off by default and always ends with your review. Every removal is recorded with a reason.
What you need. Your deduplicated corpus from Phase 3.
What you get.
- A filtered corpus
- A filter log recording every decision. This audit trail is what lets your PRISMA flow diagram build itself later.
Phase 5 — Data Cleaning
What it is for. To fix the messiest part of any bibliometric study: the same author, institution, or keyword written many different ways.
What you do. Bibliomatica normalizes your author names, affiliations, and keywords against trusted reference sources: ORCID and OpenAlex for authors, ROR for institutions. Suggestions come in confidence tiers, so you can accept the obvious matches in bulk, review the ambiguous ones, and be sure nothing changes without your approval. Countries are extracted from address strings, and keywords are unified into a single controlled list.
Your access context (set in Settings) decides how authors are verified. Academic and non-commercial users get ORCID-verified matching. Commercial users get the same cleaning through OpenAlex's open data. Institutional members can use their own member credentials.
What you need. Your filtered corpus from Phase 4, and a data-source key for author and affiliation lookups (Bibliomatica prompts you if one is missing).
What you get.
- A cleaned corpus
- Reusable normalization maps for authors and affiliations, which you can carry into future studies
- A keyword thesaurus compatible with network-mapping tools
- A cleaning report you can adapt straight into your methods section
Phase 6 — Bibliometric Analysis
What it is for. To compute the full analysis and build the figures and network maps that tell the story of the field.
What you do. Run the analysis and explore the results. Bibliomatica covers the full analytic canon, in two parts.
- Performance analysis: publication trends over time, source and author metrics, Lotka's law and Bradford's law, collaboration patterns, and citation impact.
- Science mapping: the conceptual and intellectual structure of the field, shown as interactive networks. This includes keyword co-occurrence, co-citation, bibliographic coupling, a thematic map, and thematic evolution over time.
Every number is computed by Bibliometrix on a managed cloud service. The AI computes nothing here. Network maps are rendered with VOSviewer, the tool reviewers recognize, and other figures use publication-standard color schemes so they drop straight into a manuscript. An inline filter lets you re-scope any figure on the fly, for example to look at a single date range, without changing your sealed corpus.
An optional AI step can help interpret and name the clusters your maps reveal. It works under strict guardrails: it will not label a cluster that is too small, every paper it cites must be a real record from your corpus, and it rates its confidence in each label.
What you need. Your cleaned corpus from Phase 5, and a data-source key where a step calls a live source.
What you get.
- The complete set of computed metrics as data files
- Interactive network maps you can explore and export
- Publication-ready figures and tables
- Optional written interpretations of your clusters and themes
Phase 7 — Writing and Reporting
What it is for. To turn everything you have produced into a journal-ready manuscript, with no invented numbers.
What you do. Bibliomatica assembles a single Writing Kit that bundles your verified numbers, your protocol, and your tables and figures for one continuous AI writing session. Guided prompts then walk you through drafting each part of the manuscript in order: a blueprint first, then Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion, Introduction and Abstract, and the front matter. Every statistic is pre-bound to a verified value, so the AI cannot invent a figure, and an automatic audit blocks anything it cannot trace to a source.
You polish the draft in a built-in editor that shows your manuscript taking shape section by section, then export it.
What you need. Your analysis outputs from Phase 6, and an AI chat capable of a long writing session.
What you get.
- A journal-ready Word manuscript, with your PRISMA flow diagram included
- A separate bundle of your tables and figures for submission
- A manuscript that meets the reporting standards reviewers expect: PRISMA 2020, SPAR-4-SLR, Donthu et al. (2021), and a TCCM-structured future-research agenda
8. Understanding your outputs
Bibliomatica produces real files at every phase. Here is what the main ones are and why they matter.
Corpus files. Your body of records as it changes through the study: merged, then deduplicated, then filtered, then cleaned. Each version is kept, so you can always see how the corpus evolved.
Audit trails. Plain records of every decision: which duplicates were removed and why, which records were filtered out, which name and affiliation mappings were applied. These are what make your study reproducible and what let you answer a reviewer's questions with evidence.
Reports. Readable summaries you can fold into your paper, such as the merge report and the cleaning report. The cleaning report, for example, is written to slot into your methods section.
Figures and tables. Publication-standard charts, network maps, and data tables, exported in formats ready for a manuscript.
Normalization maps and the keyword thesaurus. Reusable cleaning artifacts. The maps let you reuse your author and affiliation cleaning in a future study, and the thesaurus is compatible with network-mapping tools.
The manuscript. Your final Word document, assembled with verified numbers, a references section, and a PRISMA flow diagram.
Every number in these outputs comes from verified computation. None is produced by AI.
9. How Bibliomatica uses AI
Bibliomatica is careful and deliberate about AI, because that is the whole point of the product.
AI writes. Software computes. The AI is allowed to do one thing: write the narrative around values that verified software has already computed. It never produces a statistic of its own.
You use the AI you already have. For most steps, Bibliomatica writes a precise, study-aware prompt. You run it in your own chat with Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, and paste the response back. Your study never shares a context window with anyone else's work.
Optional in-app assists use your own key. A few steps can run inside the app, such as reviewing borderline duplicates, screening records, and disambiguating names. These use your own AI-provider key from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google, stored encrypted in your vault. They are always optional.
The numbers are protected. During writing, every figure enters the text as a placeholder bound to a real value in a real file. An automatic audit runs before delivery and blocks any number it cannot trace to a source. This is what makes a Bibliomatica manuscript defensible where general AI tools are not.
10. Data, privacy, and security
Your work and your credentials are handled with care.
Your keys are encrypted. Every key in your vault is encrypted at rest with strong encryption, and only your signed-in session can unlock it.
Sessions are server-side. Your session is held on the server, not just in your browser, so signing out revokes access immediately.
Your corpus is private. Your uploaded files and your corpus are stored privately to your project.
Your work is never used to train AI models. Full stop.
Access and licensing. The access context you set in Settings keeps your author-verification source in line with each provider's licensing terms. Academic and non-commercial users get ORCID-verified matching. Commercial users get equivalent cleaning through OpenAlex's open data. Institutional members can bring their own credentials.
11. Plans and billing
Bibliomatica has one simple plan.
Pro. Everything you need to complete a bibliometric study from foundation to a submission-ready manuscript. It includes:
- Unlimited projects
- The full seven-phase guided pipeline
- Uncapped fair-use analysis jobs
- Metrics computed by deterministic software, with AI writing only around verified values
- Submission-ready manuscript export, with tables, figures, methods, and the PRISMA flow
- The full Phase 7 Writing Kit
- The option to bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google key
- Email support from the Bibliomatica team
Price. RM49 per month for Malaysian users, or USD 15 per month for international users. Billed monthly, at launch. You can cancel anytime.
Payment. Malaysian users pay through CHIP (FPX and QR). International users pay by card through Stripe.
Refunds. All sales are final, so you are encouraged to preview the complete workflow in the tutorial before subscribing. Review the refund policy before you purchase. You manage your subscription, renewal, and payments from the Billing area in Settings.
12. Tips and troubleshooting
A few things smooth the path.
Add a data-source key early. Two phases need one: the trend-based path in Phase 1, and cleaning in Phase 5. If you plan to use either, request your free key at the start so you are not waiting on it later. Bibliomatica gives you a one-click request template.
Export the right fields in Phase 2. Follow each database walkthrough exactly. The most common cause of a weak analysis is an export that left out cited references. Phase 3 flags this for you, but it is easier to export correctly the first time.
Watch the field-coverage matrix in Phase 3. If a critical field like cited references is missing, several Phase 6 analyses will be limited. The matrix tells you before you rely on the data.
Clean in confidence tiers. In Phase 5, accept the clearly correct matches in bulk and spend your attention on the ambiguous ones. Nothing changes without your approval, so you stay in control without reviewing every single record by hand.
Use a long-context model for writing. Phase 7 is one continuous session. A writing model that holds a lot of context will keep your sections consistent from Methods through to the Abstract.
The software is fast. The method takes judgment. Merging, deduplication, and analysis run in minutes. What takes time is the review the method demands: screening records, confirming matches, and approving each phase. Bibliomatica removes the weeks of spreadsheet work between those judgment calls, not the judgment itself.
13. Frequently asked questions
Do I need to install R, Java, or anything else? No. Everything runs in your browser. The statistical engine runs on a managed cloud service, and the interactive network maps are built in. Desktop tools remain optional extras for advanced users, never a requirement.
What does it cost? Pro is RM49 per month for Malaysian users and USD 15 per month for international users, monthly only at launch. All sales are final, so preview the full pipeline in the tutorial before subscribing.
Do I need my own AI subscription? Bibliomatica works with the AI you already use. Each phase writes precise, study-aware prompts that you run in your own chat with Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, so your study never shares a context window with anyone else's. Optional in-app assists use your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google, stored encrypted in your vault.
Which databases are supported? Web of Science, Scopus, Lens.org, and Dimensions for record exports. OpenAlex, ORCID, and ROR provide trusted reference data for topic discovery, author verification, and affiliation cleaning. Bibliomatica asks about your database access up front and adapts the workflow to what you have.
Can I trust the numbers in the manuscript? Yes, and that is the founding principle. Every statistic is computed by verified software or drawn from verified data files, never by AI. During writing, numbers enter the text as placeholders bound to those files, and an automated audit blocks delivery of any figure it cannot trace to a source.
Is my data secure? Your keys are encrypted at rest, and only your signed-in session can unlock them. Sessions are stored on the server, so signing out revokes access at once. Your corpus is stored privately, and your work is never used to train AI models.
How long does a study take? The software is rarely the bottleneck. Jobs run in minutes. What takes time is the review the method requires: screening records, confirming ambiguous matches, and approving each phase. Bibliomatica removes the weeks of manual work, not the judgment.
What is the difference between academic and commercial use? Only the author-verification source. Academic and non-commercial users get ORCID-verified matching by default. Commercial users get the same cleaning through OpenAlex's open data, which embeds ORCID identifiers. Institutional ORCID members can plug in their own member credentials.
14. Glossary
Bibliometric analysis. The quantitative study of published research. It measures things like publication and citation patterns, and maps how the ideas and authors in a field relate to one another.
Corpus. The collection of research records your study is built on, after you have merged, cleaned, and filtered it.
Deduplication. Finding and removing records that appear more than once, for example the same paper exported from two different databases.
PRISMA 2020. A widely used reporting framework for systematic reviews. It sets out what to report and includes the PRISMA flow diagram, a chart showing how many records you found, screened, and included.
PRISMA flow diagram. The standard chart that traces records from the initial search through screening to the final included set. Bibliomatica builds yours from your filter audit trail.
SPAR-4-SLR. A step-by-step protocol for conducting and reporting a systematic literature review, used to structure the method.
Donthu et al. (2021). A widely cited guide, "How to conduct a bibliometric analysis," that sets out the accepted techniques and good practice for this kind of study.
TCCM. Theory, Context, Characteristics, and Methodology. A framework for organizing a future-research agenda in a review, so your discussion suggests next steps in a structured way.
Performance analysis. The part of a bibliometric study that measures productivity and impact, such as which authors, journals, institutions, and countries publish and are cited the most.
Science mapping. The part of a bibliometric study that reveals the structure of a field by mapping relationships between its documents, keywords, and references.
Keyword co-occurrence (co-word analysis). A map built from keywords that appear together, showing which topics cluster and how the field's themes are organized.
Co-citation analysis. A map built from papers that are cited together, revealing the intellectual foundations a field draws on.
Bibliographic coupling. A map built from papers that cite the same earlier work, useful for spotting current research fronts.
Thematic map. A chart that plots a field's themes by how developed and how central they are, so you can see which are established, which are emerging, and which are niche.
Thematic evolution. A view of how a field's themes appear, merge, and fade across time periods.
Lotka's law. A classic pattern in bibliometrics describing how a small number of authors produce most of the publications in a field.
Bradford's law. A classic pattern describing how a small core of journals accounts for a large share of the articles on a subject.
h-index. A measure combining productivity and impact. An author has an h-index of h if they have h papers each cited at least h times.
Bibliometrix. Established research software that computes bibliometric analyses. In Bibliomatica it runs on a managed cloud service, so you never install it.
VOSviewer. A widely recognized tool for building and viewing bibliometric network maps. Bibliomatica embeds it so your network figures look the way reviewers expect.
OpenAlex. A large open catalogue of scholarly works, authors, and institutions. Bibliomatica uses it for trend discovery and for verified author and affiliation data. Some of its features ask for a free API key.
ORCID. A registry of unique researcher identifiers. Bibliomatica uses it to verify author identities during cleaning.
ROR (Research Organization Registry). An open registry of research institutions. Bibliomatica uses it to normalize the many different ways an institution's name can be written.
Web of Science, Scopus, Lens.org, Dimensions. Major research databases you search and export from. Bibliomatica gives exact export instructions for each.
API key. A private access code that connects Bibliomatica to a data source or an AI provider on your behalf. Keys live encrypted in your vault.
Access context. Your declaration of how you use Bibliomatica (Academic, Commercial, or Institutional). It decides how author identities are verified, in line with each provider's licensing.
Credential vault. The secure store for your keys, both data-source keys and AI-provider keys.
Protocol. The plan for your study: its question, aims, criteria, databases, and search strategy. Bibliomatica helps you produce a registration-ready one.
Registration. Publishing your protocol on a platform such as OSF, INPLASY, Research Registry, or protocols.io before you begin, a good-practice step in systematic reviews.
Writing Kit. The single bundle Bibliomatica assembles for Phase 7, containing your verified numbers, protocol, tables, and figures, so one continuous AI writing session has everything it needs.
15. Getting help
If something is unclear or a step is blocking your study, write to the Bibliomatica team. Study-blocking questions are answered first.
Email: support@bibliomatica.app
You can also open Help inside the app for a quick reference to the phases, keyboard shortcuts, and answers to common questions.
Bibliomatica gives every researcher a bibliometric study they can defend line by line. The language work goes to AI. The arithmetic goes to verified software. From a first question to a submission-ready manuscript, in seven reproducible phases.