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Use of Research Idea Registry is subject to acceptance of its Terms of Use. Public reading remains free. AI-assisted contribution tools are available only to people aged 18 or older.
Open scholarly registry
Good questions
deserve a future.
A public home for promising research ideas—properly framed, classified and ready for someone to take further.
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Qualified / 91Where should cities place heat-safe transport stops first?
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06major OECD fields
42research subfields
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What this is for
A good research idea should not depend on your having time to pursue it.
The idea library
Find a question worth
staying with.
Browse qualified briefs by academic home, source and stage. Each record shows its gap, provenance and possible university study pathways.
01
Informal commuters often wait in the hottest, least shaded parts of a city. Transport traces, surface temperature and health data could reveal where small cooling investments would matter most.
Urban planningClimate adaptationPublic health
HonoursResearch master’sDoctoral
02
A comparative study of AI-supported tutoring in multilingual classrooms, looking at learning outcomes and the survival of local examples, idioms and teaching practices.
EducationArtificial intelligenceLinguistics
Bachelor’sProfessional master’s / MBAResearch master’s
03
Many community energy trials end when grant funding does. This idea compares the governance, tariff and maintenance choices behind systems that remain useful five years later.
Energy systemsDevelopment economicsGovernance
Professional master’s / MBAResearch master’sDoctoral
04
Small edge and enterprise data centres may create a dispersed water burden that is poorly measured and rarely visible to city planners.
Environmental engineeringComputer scienceUrban studies
HonoursResearch master’s
05
Formal recovery metrics can miss the unpaid, relational work that gets households back on their feet. This project maps those care networks and the burdens they carry.
SociologyDisaster studiesGender studies
Research master’sDoctoral
06
Cities are beginning to dim public lighting, but few programmes connect policy changes to multi-species ecological outcomes over time.
EcologyUrban studiesEnvironmental policy
Bachelor’sResearch master’sDoctoral
A registry, not a workspace
Ideas become useful
when they are legible.
Research Idea Registry preserves the question, knowledge gap, likely demands and provenance. Focused annotations cannot rewrite a contributor’s intent; exceptionally strong corrections may update classification or generate a separately attributed idea.
Phrase
Gemini turns a hunch or paper excerpt into a neutral, researchable academic brief for the contributor to confirm.
Qualify
The academic gate checks readiness and adds a separate related-research signal. Prior work informs the idea; it does not automatically exclude it.
Register
The original record stays attributed. Readers can signal a study, connect final research or add a tightly scoped scholarly annotation.
Academic gate
AI structures.
An auditor challenges.
Gemini shapes the draft into a researchable brief. A separate automated audit checks its clarity, integrity and academic fit before it can appear.
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Automated, but explainedUncertain ideas are returned with practical suggestions. The gate checks whether an idea is ready to consider—not whether its proposition is already true.
Your rough ideaStructure
Clarify the question, context and possible direction without changing its intent.
Independent passChallenge
Check researchability, integrity, duplication signals and suitable academic fields.
Clear outcomeAdmit or improve
Publish a qualified brief, or return concise suggestions for revision.
Academic Constitution v1.1
No hidden rules.
No waiting room.
The public standard is versioned and applies equally across disciplines. The automated system may admit, request revision or reject; it never sends a submission to a human moderator.
- The registry evaluates whether an idea is researchable and sufficiently specified, not whether its proposition is true or politically agreeable.
- No uncertain submission is published. It is returned with concrete revision questions and may be resubmitted.
- Sensitive subjects are not excluded merely for being sensitive; they must still pass the same neutrality, evidence and ethics tests.
- Automated decisions remain visible through a versioned checklist, score and explanation attached to every admitted idea.
- AI may academically edit a rough submission before publication, but the contributor confirms the final wording and owns the registered record. Other users cannot rewrite it.
- Academic quality and provenance are reported separately. Journal identity or impact factor never increases an idea’s academic-quality score.
Every gate passes and the independent audit is highly confident.
Uncertainty produces specific questions that can strengthen the idea.
Reserved for integrity failures, spam, harmful claims or no plausible research form.
View the full academic gate 8 checks · OECD classification · provenance scale
Researchable question
Open rather than predetermined, answerable through systematic inquiry, and expressed without changing the contributor’s intent.
Knowledge gap
Identifies something unknown, under-tested, disputed or worth replicating without inventing a literature claim.
Potential contribution
Explains a plausible academic, practical, policy or social contribution without promising an outcome.
Scope
Names a population, geography, system, period or unit of analysis that could be bounded for university research.
Evidence pathway
Allows at least one plausible method, dataset, source base, experiment, case or analytical route.
Academic fit
Maps to an OECD Field of Research and Development and at least one credible university study pathway.
Integrity and ethics
Is neutral enough to investigate and is not spam, promotion, discriminatory framing, a personal accusation or advocacy with a predetermined conclusion.
Provenance
For paper-derived ideas, includes an APA 7 reference, DOI link when one can be verified, exact source location and an explicit-versus-inferred extraction label.
Provenance is separate from qualityA strong contributor idea can score highly at P1; a DOI-resolved paper direction can be P4 or P5 without receiving extra academic-quality points.
P0Unverified originP1Account-backed ideaP2Attributable sourceP3Persistent scholarly recordP4Verified inferred directionP5Verified explicit recommendation
Global academic placementOECD Fields of Research and Development provide the stable top layer; flexible topic tags sit underneath.
1 · Natural sciences2 · Engineering and technology3 · Medical and health sciences4 · Agricultural and veterinary sciences5 · Social sciences6 · Humanities and the arts
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