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Know what to fix in your thesis, from topic to defense

Upload a chapter or your reference list and see each issue next to the passage it came from. Every change stays yours to make.

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Real output from a real thesis and a real search

  • Choose a topic

    See what is already published before you choose your topic

    Typed“green finance and sustainability”

    20,046 papers found8 groups

    Among the most citedSustainable Solutions for Green Financing and Investment in Renewable Energy Projects (2020), 571 citations

    Research Compass · OpenAlex

    See research on my topic

  • Write the chapters

    Know what to fix in a chapter before your supervisor reads it

    Revise
    The studies reviewed above show that Green Finance is associated with improved environmental performance and operational efficiency. But association and mechanism are different things.

    Acknowledgement of a gap without full resolution

    The text correctly identifies a critical gap between association and mechanism but does not fully address how the proposed model will establish causation versus correlation

    Chapter Audit · Rule · Argument structure

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  • Defend

    Practise the questions your examiner or committee could ask

    On page 82, you discuss the unsupported moderation hypothesis H4, where the interaction term was near zero. Yet, your NCA analysis on page 73 finds IS/IT is a necessary condition for high resilience. How do you reconcile these two seemingly contradictory findings?

    Defense Practice · p. 83

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Rooms for each stage of your thesis

Pick the stage you are at to see what each of its rooms checks.

What you get

Thesisroom gives you ten rooms, each reading a different part of a thesis, from the scope of a proposal to the questions your examiner or committee could ask. Each issue points to something you can check: a page of your own thesis, or a record in published research databases such as Crossref and OpenAlex.

  • Research Compasssee which published papers already sit near your topic
  • Scope Checkfind where your proposal asks for more than your method reaches
  • Chapter Auditget comments on unsupported claims and gaps in a chapter
  • Find Sourcesfind published papers that back a claim you made
  • Paper Matchsee whether a paper supports or contradicts your thesis
  • Blind Spotssee the parts of your field your reference list does not cover
  • Argument Mapfind the contradictions between your chapters
  • Citation Checkfind the broken citations in your reference list
  • Reference Watchget alerted when a source you cited changes
  • Defense Practicepractise the questions your examiner or committee could ask

Plus a workspace: Supervisor Report, Meeting Pack, Feedback Loop, Reading Queue, Research Journal and Publication Planner

Plus checks that recalculate the results you wrote in your text and match your citations against your reference list, and tell you where one does not hold

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How it works

From upload to a list of what to fix

Thesisroom reads a proposal, a chapter, a reference list or a full thesis once it is uploaded. You start each room yourself and get questions, citation checks and chapter comments, each tied to the passage it came from.

  1. 01UploadYour proposal, a chapter, your reference list or a full draft, as a PDF or DOCX file.
  2. 02Choose a checkStart the room for your stage: proposal questions, a chapter audit, a citation check or defense practice.
  3. 03Fix it yourselfEach issue is tied to the sentence it came from, quoted. You make every change.

Every source you verify stays in your bibliography and gets re-checked as you keep writing, whether your degree takes one year or four

Real output from a real thesis

This is what Thesisroom marks in a thesis

Thesisroom reads an uploaded thesis and returns three kinds of result: questions your examiner or committee could ask, drawn from specific passages; citation checks drawn from ten academic registries; and chapter comments, each marked must address, revise or consider. Each one quotes the sentence it came from, and none of your thesis is written for you.

Citation CheckExample from a real thesis
Verified

Arowosegbe, O. B., Olutimehin, D. O., Odunaiya, O. G., Soyombo, O. T.

Risk management in global supply chains: Addressing vulnerabilities in shipping and logistics

10.51594/ijmer.v6i3.962

Verified against published research databases such as Crossref and OpenAlex

A real reference from the same thesis, checked against published research databases such as Crossref and OpenAlex

Re-reading your thesis and hoping you guess the right questions is not preparation. This is what it looks like when you stop guessing.

A grade is a guess

A passage you can check is evidence.

Chapter AuditExample from a real thesis, shown with the passage and page it came from
Revise
The studies reviewed above show that Green Finance is associated with improved environmental performance and operational efficiency. But association and mechanism are different things.

Acknowledgement of a gap without full resolution

The text correctly identifies a critical gap between association and mechanism but does not fully address how the proposed model will establish causation versus correlation

Rule · Argument structure

What researchers are saying

  • I used to prepare for my thesis defense by rereading my entire thesis and hoping I had covered everything. Thesisroom changed that. I could see questions generated from my actual research and the specific arguments I had made. It helped me focus my preparation on where my thesis could actually be challenged, rather than guessing what my examiner might ask.

    S.M, PhD candidate

  • The biggest surprise was finding out that having a long reference list does not necessarily mean your evidence is strong. Thesisroom helped me check my citations and identify places where the source I had cited did not fully support the claim I was making. I found several things I wanted to fix before submitting my chapter.

    D.O, Master's research student

  • After reading the same chapters for months, I stopped noticing problems in my own argument. Thesisroom gave me a different perspective. It helped me identify weak points, gaps in the research I had considered, and areas where my argument needed more support. I used the findings to decide what to revisit before sending the work to my supervisor.

    A.L, Doctoral researcher

Citation checks draw on ten academic registries, including Crossref, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, and Retraction Watch

What Thesisroom will not do

What this platform refuses, by design

  • It will not write for you

    Thesisroom reads what you wrote and shows you where it does not hold. It does not generate a paragraph, rewrite a sentence, or produce text you can paste into your thesis. The writing is yours and it stays yours.

  • It will not fabricate a source

    Every reference Thesisroom returns is a real record in the academic registries, with an identifier you can look up yourself. If a source cannot be found, Thesisroom says so rather than inventing one.

  • It will not help you evade detection

    Thesisroom does not check your thesis against detection tools, does not reword text to bypass plagiarism tools, and does not help you present work as something it is not. Your supervisor can read the report.

These are not policies. They are architectural. Thesisroom cannot do these things even if someone asked.

Thesisroom exists to help researchers be more rigorous, not to help them cut corners. Every question and every comment is marked on a page or a record you can open, so your supervisor can check it too.

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Your research stays yours

  • Identity stripped

    Your name, your email and your title page are removed before your thesis is analysed

  • Never used for training

    Your thesis is read to return your results, and it is never used to train any model

  • Delete at any time

    Delete a thesis and every result on it whenever you want, or your whole account from Settings

Free to start with no card needed, then $12 a month for everything, $9 a month billed annually, or $35 for three months

Free includes up to 3 questions your examiner or committee could ask and 15 citations checked from your upload.

FAQ

Common questions about Thesisroom

Does Thesisroom tell me what to read?

Thesisroom's Reading Queue lists what research databases return for your thesis's claims, ordered by how little of each claim's field your bibliography holds. It does not assess those papers, rank them by quality, or decide which are worth your time.

Does Thesisroom check my statistics?

Thesisroom recalculates every significance test you reported in a sentence, and shows you where the reported p-value cannot be right. It reads results written in your text, not results in tables.

Does Thesisroom find citations missing from my reference list?

Thesisroom matches your in-text citations against your bibliography when it can find your reference list and read your citation style, and names the citations with no entry and the entries nothing cites.

Can Thesisroom track corrections from my examiner or committee?

Thesisroom keeps each request from your supervisor, examiner or committee with the draft it was raised against, and records when you say you addressed it. It does not check whether a request was acted on.

Can Thesisroom check my research proposal?

Thesisroom reads your proposal and asks about the places where what you ask for and what you plan sit apart, quoting both passages from your own text. It does not say whether a project can be done.

What is Thesisroom?

Thesisroom is a research quality platform for Master's students, PhD researchers, and postdocs. It reads your thesis and checks your arguments, your citations, and your chapter structure with ten rooms. Every change stays yours to make.

About Thesisroom

How does Thesisroom work?

Thesisroom reads your thesis, a chapter, or a reference list, and six rooms open on it, from examiner or committee questions and citation checks to chapter audits and argument maps. You start each one; each result is saved.

Is this allowed?

Thesisroom questions your thesis and checks your sources. It never writes, never invents a citation, and never helps evade detection. You can share the report with your supervisor.

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Is my thesis safe?

Thesisroom removes your name, your email and your title page from your thesis before it is analysed. Your thesis is never used to train any model, and you can delete it, or your whole account, at any time.

Do I need a finished thesis?

Thesisroom needs only one chapter or a reference list to start. A finished thesis is not required.

What does the free account include?

Thesisroom's free account includes up to 3 questions your examiner or committee could ask and 15 citations checked from your upload, with no card needed.

How much does Thesisroom cost?

Thesisroom is free to start, no card needed. Monthly is $12 a month, or $108 a year on Annual ($9 a month). The 3-Month Plan is $35 every three months, and Lab Cohort is $149 for five seats.

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