Mastering Claude’s writing skills: how to help you choose explosive academic paper topics.
Today, Ajiu is here to share a very professional topic: how to use Claude to select those paper topics that can ignite discussions in the academic world.
Regarding how to use Claude to choose explosive academic paper topics, Ajiu has summarized a 3+2 model, which includes 3 screening dimensions and 2 bonus items.
This model was validated after Ajiu provided paper guidance to nearly 50 doctoral students.
In the future, when sharing with friends in the academic circle, you can use this 3+2 model, which is both practical and efficient.
What are the three screening dimensions?
First: Let Claude compare the popular paper titles from top journals in the field over the past 3 years.
Second: Let Claude analyze the future research trends and gaps in the field.
Third: Let Claude evaluate the innovation and controversy of the topics.
Speaking of letting Claude compare the popular paper titles from top journals, Ajiu can’t help but recall the experience of a physics doctoral student he guided last week.
He had Claude analyze the highly cited papers from Nature and Science over the past 3 years and found an interesting phenomenon: papers with titles containing words like paradigm shift, breakthrough, and revolution tend to spark more heated discussions in academia.
This makes Ajiu think that we can completely let Claude build a high-citation paper title word bank, analyzing the commonalities behind these high-frequency words to create our own paper titles.
To be honest, this method is very practical, and for this, Ajiu specifically prepared a high-frequency word bank of top journal paper titles in various disciplines based on Claude for core members, which has already helped many doctoral students quickly locate quality paper topics.
Next, let Claude analyze the research trends and gaps in the field.
This is particularly important because a good paper topic should align with current research hotspots while also filling gaps in the field.
Ajiu remembers once guiding a chemistry student, where we let Claude analyze the evolution of research directions in the chemistry field over the past 5 years.
Claude not only listed the changing paths of research hotspots but also predicted potential research gaps that might arise in the future.
The topic that this student ultimately chose precisely targeted a potential breakthrough point predicted by Claude, and the paper garnered significant attention after publication.
The third dimension is to evaluate the innovation and controversy of the topics.
Many people do not know that Claude can actually serve as an academic debater.
We can let it challenge our chosen topics from different schools and theoretical perspectives to see how much valuable academic controversy this topic can spark.
Interestingly, Ajiu found that having Claude play the role of scholars from different schools to examine the topics is particularly effective.
It can simulate expert opinions from conservatives, reformists, and interdisciplinary scholars, helping us comprehensively evaluate the potential for controversy in the topics.
Finally, let’s talk about the two bonus items.
The first bonus item is to let Claude make interdisciplinary associations.
Ajiu noticed that papers that can cause a stir in academia often have novel perspectives from interdisciplinary approaches.
For example, applying biological research methods to economic studies is often particularly appealing.
Ajiu recently helped a sociology doctoral student with topic selection, where we had Claude look for connections between psychology, economics, and sociology.
The final topic selected integrated experimental methods from behavioral economics and successfully attracted the attention of scholars from multiple fields.
The second bonus item is to let Claude evaluate the social impact of the topics.
Academic research is not built in a vacuum; if we can choose topics that have both academic value and are closely related to real society, it is easier to spark widespread discussions.
At this point, Ajiu can’t help but share a case.
There was a doctoral student in environmental science who originally wanted to study a very theoretical topic.
Through Claude’s analysis, it was discovered that if the research perspective shifted to corporate environmental innovation under the background of carbon neutrality, it would not only have high academic value but also attract industry attention.
Now, his paper has not only been published in a top journal but has also been reported by multiple media outlets.
Alright, speaking of this, Ajiu suddenly remembers a very practical technique: let Claude help you design a title matrix.
The specific approach is to let it first list 10 possible topic directions, and then design 3-4 different expressions for each direction.
In this way, you can obtain 30-40 candidate topics, and then use the previously mentioned 3+2 model to filter them, which is particularly efficient.
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