Who grows the field, along which axes?
Turns citation, co-authorship, keyword and temporal flows into a research map.
Lacuna unites the bibliometric universe, the thematic meaning map and meta-analytic evidence in one audited research flow. The point is not to make charts — it is to show where research should be built, with what evidence it is defended, and with what decision trail it is published.
The product is not a tool; it is an evidence architecture that can become a paper.
Turns citation, co-authorship, keyword and temporal flows into a research map.
Does not just list themes; it surfaces conceptual proximity, repetition and zones of silence.
Takes meta-analysis out of a calculator output and binds it to a decision trail: choice, assumption, heterogeneity and provenance.
Each card is a real engine output, shown small: a tri-colour identity keyline, the output kind, the figure, and a specimen footer under it. Engine colours (navy · jade · orange) live only in the chrome — every data mark stays in the colour-blind-safe palette.
Intellectual Structure · Social Structure · Co-word Analysis & Thematic Map · Topic Modeling (LDA / NMF) · Network Meta-Analysis · Dose–Response Meta-Analysis
Records from sources like Scopus, WoS and Scholar are cleaned, versioned and turned into an analysable research corpus.
So the page shows not a crowd of features but a calm, institutional analysis contract.
Records from sources like Scopus, WoS and Scholar are cleaned, versioned and turned into an analysable research corpus.
Lacuna does not assert a gap; it marks it by the surrounding publication density, thematic silence and evidence weakness.
Every table, figure and decision is sealed with its source, version, method and selection rationale.
Lacuna's premium feel does not come from ornament. Every screen carries an academic audit layer that answers the question: how did you reach this result?
Higgins & Thompson (2002) — I² heterogeneity
Random-effects model selected because I² = 62% → the studies-differ assumption holds.
Representative seal — every Lacuna output carries one.
Colour and graphics are not decor; they carry methodological status. Bronze is the gap, deep navy is evidence, teal is the analytic-discovery signal.
Model selection, filtering, exclusion and reporting choices remain as a record you can defend later.
Each output is not a screenshot; it is a portable academic object carrying provenance, version, source and method context.
ScholarGate is the learning layer, PaperMind the topic-finding layer, Lacuna the evidence-building layer. Not one product — a family that is an academic operating system.