Academic Research Question
Focus multiple ideas into one submission-ready research question
Description
Why we love this skill
It goes beyond polishing titles by diagnosing each candidate topic and narrowing it to one defensible research question through structured reasoning and reverse checks.
• Diagnose candidate topics: Identify overly broad topics, unclear subjects, uncontrolled boundaries, and false novelty before determining whether the topic is ready to be finalized. • Narrow the research scope: Remove nonessential subjects, variables, and objectives to reduce “trying to study everything” to one central question. • Derive the core question: Identify a single research direction based on subject clarity, question sharpness, scope control, and fit with available materials. • Generate a standardized title: Produce one Chinese title aligned with the research question, with an English title and a specific contribution statement when needed. After opening, say: “I have 3 candidate topics and want to submit to a CSSCI journal. Help me finalize the topic.” It will first check the research subject, core question, scope, and practical constraints, then provide a well-supported final research question. If information is insufficient, it will ask follow-up questions instead of forcing a polished title. Suitable for: Researchers with candidate topics who are struggling to choose one / scholars who need to focus quickly before submission / anyone who does not want to be rejected by a reviewer’s one-line criticism that the research question is unclear. ✅ This version has undergone two months of refinement, testing, and iteration.
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Academic Research Question
Focus multiple ideas into one submission-ready research question
Description
Why we love this skill
It goes beyond polishing titles by diagnosing each candidate topic and narrowing it to one defensible research question through structured reasoning and reverse checks.
• Diagnose candidate topics: Identify overly broad topics, unclear subjects, uncontrolled boundaries, and false novelty before determining whether the topic is ready to be finalized. • Narrow the research scope: Remove nonessential subjects, variables, and objectives to reduce “trying to study everything” to one central question. • Derive the core question: Identify a single research direction based on subject clarity, question sharpness, scope control, and fit with available materials. • Generate a standardized title: Produce one Chinese title aligned with the research question, with an English title and a specific contribution statement when needed. After opening, say: “I have 3 candidate topics and want to submit to a CSSCI journal. Help me finalize the topic.” It will first check the research subject, core question, scope, and practical constraints, then provide a well-supported final research question. If information is insufficient, it will ask follow-up questions instead of forcing a polished title. Suitable for: Researchers with candidate topics who are struggling to choose one / scholars who need to focus quickly before submission / anyone who does not want to be rejected by a reviewer’s one-line criticism that the research question is unclear. ✅ This version has undergone two months of refinement, testing, and iteration.
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Turn a vague research interest into a testable, feasible quantitative paper topic tailored to your target journal. Whether you plan to submit to a CSSCI or SSCI journal, or are comparing cross-sectional and longitudinal research, this Skill helps clarify your research direction, population, and scope while building a clear variable framework around independent, dependent, mediating, and moderating variables. As your topic takes shape, you can develop research questions, a theoretical framework, formal research hypotheses, measurement instruments, sampling and data collection plans, and statistical analysis approaches aligned with your hypotheses. If you already have a policy project or research keywords, you can use them to identify directions with academic publication potential. If you have not yet settled on a specific angle, you can generate and compare multiple candidate topics. The final output focuses on topic feasibility and publication potential: whether the data can be obtained, whether the variables can be operationalized, whether the theory, hypotheses, and methods form a coherent chain, whether the target journal is a good fit, and where the topic can occupy a distinct niche relative to existing research. You will receive a complete topic finalization plan covering the research direction, variable relationships, theoretical hypotheses, cross-sectional or longitudinal design, data and analysis plan, risk considerations, and feasibility recommendations—ready to share with your advisor or use as the basis for a literature review.
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