Thread by @MushtaqBilalPhD

Starting a new research project is always challenging.

Here's a Research Kick+Elicit workflow to help you with it.

It'll help you:
• Craft an interesting research question
• Collect relevant papers for literature review
In a fraction of time.

You can learn it in 10 min:

1. Go to researchkick(dot)com and click on "Get started."

Create an accoun and upgrade to a paid plan.

Once you've upgraded, you will be take to Research Kick's main user interface.

(Research Kick costs $9/month and $99/year.)

2. Start by selecting the database relevant to your field. Click on "Change Database" in the top right corner and select your research field.

Next, type in the title of your project or any relevant keywords.

Research Kick will give you several research questions. Read through them and select the one you find most compelling.

3. Paste the question you found most compelling in the chat bar.

Then ask Research Kick to refine it for you. You can also include parameters like location, age, sex, etc.

Research Kick will give you a refined set of questions. Read through them and again select the one you think is most interesting.

4. Again paste the refined question you found most interesting in the chat bar.

Ask Research Kick if this question has already been addressed in published literature.

If the selected question has not been directly addressed, Research Kick will tell you so. If it has been, Research Kick will give you links to the relevant papers.

In this case, the selected question has not been addressed.

5. Copy the selected research question and go to elicit(dot)com and paste it there.

Elicit will give you a list of papers relevant to your research question. It will also give you a summary of top 8 research papers.

6. In Elicit, you can also add further columns like "Main findings," "Interventions," etc.

This will help you figure out very quickly which papers you should read for your literature review.

7. You can also export papers from Elicit to Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote.

Click on the "Export as" button and select "RIS." This will download an RIS file to your computer.

Next, go to Zotero and click on "File" and then "Import."

Import the RIS file you just downloaded. Zotero will create a new collection and put all the papers in it.

8. Select all the papers in your Zotero library and right click.

Select "Find Available PDFs" and Zotero will retrieve all open source PDFs of papers as you can see here.

Double click on the paper and Zotero will open it for you. Now you can start reading and taking notes.

And that's it.

You can craft a compelling research question, gather relevant papers, and start reading them. You can all this in a matter of minutes.

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