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Thesis topic, grant opportunity, replication, methodological, population context or theory.
Find the gap your research should fill
Describe your area and get research gaps backed by sources: for a thesis topic, a grant, a replication, or a method or population others have missed.
- Gaps backed by sources
- By method, population or theory
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See the evidence
Gaps come with the sources that show what has and hasn't been done.
Move on to the proposal
Take your gap into AI Thesis or the Studio and write it up.
How it works
- 1
Describe your area
Name the field and what you want to study, and add your papers if you have them.
- 2
Answer a question or two
Say the kind of gap and your discipline and level.
- 3
Read and choose
Open the sources and pick the gap to pursue.
Then check nobody has filled it
Use the paper search and Deep Research to see what has been published recently.
- Year and citation filters
- A synthesis of what the results say
- Paper Feed follows your topic every day
Built for the way you work
Undergraduate and master's students
Assignments, dissertations and theses, with sources you can open and check before you hand anything in.
PhD candidates
Long chapters, proposals and defences, with your own papers as the evidence and a review before your supervisor sees it.
Researchers and faculty
Manuscripts, grants and reviews, with checked references and reports you can share with co-authors.
Questions
Will a gap it finds always be new?
No. It is a lead, not a verdict. Discuss it with your supervisor and search the recent literature before you commit.
Can it use my own papers?
Yes. Attach files or use your Library, along with web sources.