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Find research gaps in your topic
Enter a topic. WriteOrbit reads recent and highly cited papers and suggests possible gaps: questions not yet answered, groups or settings not studied, methods not tried, and results that disagree. Each one cites the papers it is based on.
How to use it
Enter a topic
The narrower the topic, the more useful the gaps.
Review the gaps
Each gap says why it may be a gap and which papers suggest it.
Check before you commit
Search further before you build a study on a gap: a paper outside the sample may already fill it.
Good to know
- Gaps are suggestions from a sample of papers, not proof that no one has studied the question.
- Sources come from a scholarly index and are cited from their abstracts; read the papers before you rely on them.
Questions
More in the help center.
Can I trust that a gap is real?
Treat each one as a lead. It is based on about ten papers; search further, and ask your supervisor, before you rely on it.
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