Research Kick helps you craft compelling research questions and find research gaps in minutes
Trusted by more than 2,000 researchers worldwide
I was impressed at its ease of usability and indeed as promised, I was able to generate 10 topic ideas within 4 minutes.
A better and faster way to kickstart your research
Research Kick is an AI app that helps researchers brainstorm novel research ideas and craft compelling research questions. Integrated with scholarly databases like Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, Scite, and PubMed, Research Kick also helps users identify research gaps.
Research Kick helps you brainstorm ideas, craft research questions, and find research gaps in less than 10 minutes.
Research Kick searches through more than 1 billion research papers to help you find research gaps in many fields.
Research Kick integrates with Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, Scite, and PubMed for the most accurate results.
Research Kick uses GPT-4o and proprietary reasoning models to ensure no hallucinations and provide the best results.
3 simple steps
Enter research keywords. Refine research questions. Identify research gaps.
Generate research questions
Simply enter your research keywords, Research Kick will give you 5-20 relevant and compelling research questions. You can select any given research question and ask Research Kick to refine it or check if it is a novel research question.
Refine research questions
Ask Research Kick to refine a research question and optionally provide additional details. Research Kick will give you more focused research questions. You can repeat this process until you are satisfied with a given research question.
Find relevant research papers and identify research gaps
Ask Research Kick to search for relevant research papers that can answer your research question. Research Kick will find a list of the most relevant research papers and assess if they have adequately addressed your research question.
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We’re a small self-funded team who are passionate to help academics become highly-efficient with AI apps.
Co-Founder
Mushtaq Bilal is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen Center. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from Binghamton University.
He is known for developing ways of incorporating AI apps into academic writing. He has an audience of more than 225,000 on X and 60,000 on LinkedIn, where he regularly shares tips on how to become an efficient academic writer with AI apps.
He is frequently invited to give talks at leading universities in North America, Europe, and Australia.
His work has been featured in publications like Nature, Der Spiegel, and Times Higher Education.
Co-Founder
Minh-Phuc Tran is an experienced software engineer and serial software entrepreneur. He has been developing software for over a decade, ranging from mission-critical cloud services to modern AI applications.
Prior to running his startups, he held key roles as a lead engineer and a founding engineer at fast-growing startups such as Fig and Web3Auth.
In recent years, he has bootstrapped several successful software products and cultivated a sizable audience of software enthusiasts on X.
His work has been utilized by numerous companies and high-performing individuals worldwide.
Software Engineer
Duy Bui is a skilled software engineer specializing in AI-powered applications.
He has expertise in React Native, NextJS, Remix (React Router) and AI API integrations.
His innovative fullstack projects for researchers have demonstrated significant impact, with over 4 years of experience building products.
He brings technical depth and entrepreneurial vision to our team, focusing on creating intuitive, powerful tools for the academic community.