10 AI Prompts Every Researcher Should Use (Free)

Using ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini for research but getting generic answers, or worried about fake citations? Start here.

This free 4-page PDF gives you 10 copy-paste prompts I use in my own research, each with a short note on why it works.

What’s inside

• Research Context Card: make any AI assistant understand your field, level and target journal
• Reference hallucination guard: stop the AI from inventing citations
• Research gap statement: turn your paper notes into the gap paragraph every introduction needs
• Literature matrix extractor: turn a paper into a structured summary in 2 minutes
• Critical read: read papers like a reviewer (assumptions, leakage, weak baselines)
• Experimental design review: find what reviewers will attack before you run experiments
• Hedging calibration: catch overclaiming in your Discussion
• Academic language edit: polish your English without losing your meaning
• Simulated Reviewer 2: get a tough review before you submit
• Calm-down rewrite: turn a frustrated rebuttal draft into a professional response

Who it’s for

Master’s students, PhD scholars and early-career researchers in any field that writes papers.

How to get it

Claim it for free, and the PDF is available instantly in your Whop account.

Want the other 90 prompts plus Excel and Word templates? See The AI Research Workflow Kit in my store.