AI+ for Academic Research
Find, Synthesise and Cite Faster Than Ever
Research faster. Cite defensibly. Avoid the fabrication trap.
AI fabricated a citation and someone in your department got caught. You're not sure what to trust, what's permitted, or how to use AI without risking your reputation. This book gives researchers the Academic Research Prompt Toolkit (35 prompts across the full research lifecycle), a reliable method for detecting hallucinated citations, and a practical integrity and disclosure framework. Written by engineers who build auditable AI systems.
- 35 ready-made, market-tested prompts: research scoping, source discovery, literature synthesis, citation verification, draft and disclosure
- A Citation Verification Loop that catches AI fabrication before it reaches your bibliography
- A literature review workflow that compresses weeks of synthesis into days — with an audit trail your supervisor or editor can follow
- An AI disclosure approach built around current institutional and journal norms — not last year's
- A 30-day plan for postgraduates, PhD candidates, academics, lawyers, clinicians, policy analysts, and journalists doing rigorous research
Anyone whose work involves rigorous research: postgraduate students, PhD candidates, academic researchers and lecturers, lawyers and paralegals doing case law and precedent research, clinicians and medical researchers conducting evidence reviews, policy analysts in government and think tanks, journalists on long-form investigations, and consultants preparing research-heavy client work. Cross-industry by design.
Also for:Undergraduate students doing dissertations and capstone projects; professionals in regulated industries preparing briefs; librarians and information professionals advising researchers (the companion title here is T2-66 AI+ Librarians).
- Scope a research project and refine research questions using AI as a thought partner
- Find and discover relevant scholarly and professional sources using AI-native search tools
- Critically evaluate AI-surfaced sources and reliably detect hallucinated citations
- Conduct a literature review with AI assistance while maintaining a defensible audit trail
- Synthesise findings across multiple sources without fabrication
- Draft and cite AI-assisted research output in line with current integrity and disclosure standards
- Diagnostic
- How AI-ready is your research?
- Chapter 1
- AI in Research Right Now
- Chapter 2
- The New Research Workflow
- Chapter 3
- Scoping: Questions, Angles, and Plans
- Chapter 4
- Finding: Search, Discovery, and Specialised Tools
- Chapter 5
- Evaluating: Critical Appraisal and Hallucinated Citations
- Chapter 6
- Reviewing: Conducting a Literature Review
- Chapter 7
- Synthesising: Making Sense Across Sources
- Chapter 8
- Drafting and Citing: From Notes to Prose
- Chapter 9
- Integrity: Ethics, Disclosure, and Institutional Policies
- Chapter 10
- Your 30-Day Research Plan
- Back matter
- Skill Summary · Recommended Next Reads · Glossary · Tool Reference
Built by an AI engineering firm — for researchers whose integrity is the work, and whose citations have to hold.
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