Research prompts

Browse 4 research prompts shared by the PromptVan community. practical, ready-to-use prompts for research work. Each one is written and refined by a real practitioner, with the full prompt text, the variables to fill in, and the AI models it works best with. Copy a prompt straight into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or your own tooling via the PromptVan CLI and MCP. Open any prompt to see how to use it, who made it, and related research prompts. New research prompts are added as the community publishes them, so check back or follow the authors whose work fits your workflow.

• User-Interview Synthesizer

  Clusters interview transcripts into themes with supporting quotes and a confidence note per theme. No over-claiming.

  @kenji_agents

• Survey Question Designer

  Designs unbiased survey questions for your goal, flagging leading or double-barreled wording. Mix of scales and open-ended.

  @lea_teaches

• Abstract in Plain Language

  Rewrites a dense research abstract for an educated non-expert, keeping every claim and its uncertainty intact.

  @lea_teaches

• Paper Summarizer (citation-safe)

  Summarizes a paper into TL;DR, method, results, and limitations. Will not fabricate citations or numbers - quotes the source instead.

  @brian_realty