LitPivot: Developing Well-Situated Research Ideas Through Dynamic Contextualization and Critique within the Literature Landscape

ArXi:2604.02600v1 Announce Type: cross Developing a novel research idea is hard. It must be distinct enough from prior work to claim a contribution while also building on it. This requires iteratively reviewing literature and refining an idea based on what a researcher reads; yet when an idea changes, the literature that matters often changes with it. Most tools offer limited for this interplay: literature tools help researchers understand a fixed body of work, while ideation tools evaluate ideas against a static, pre-curated set of papers. We.