Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
How to come up with research ideas? - Coggle Diagram
How to come up with research ideas?
How do you tend to come up with initial/seed ideas? What is your search method (if you have one?)
What proportion of your ideas for past papers come from?
Colleagues
Intentionally browsing the literature for ideas
On the spot inspiration
Conferences
Other
How do you prioritize research ideas?
Is there an special, generalizable method that you've discovered to sift out those ideas that are likely to be unrealistic early on in the process of idea generation?
How do you prioritize research ideas?
Coming up with ideas.
Be challenged (nothing sparks ideas more than being confronted with contradiction, healthy criticism, debate and maybe a bit of a competition).
Manage to get some free time for thinking (Sure, an idea can pop into your head any time, but it's probably less likely to happen when you teach basic calculus all day that when you get some time to really think)
Know your field (know where a new development needs to occur).
Organizing ideas
"Someone's intelligence can be measured by the quantity of uncertainities that he can bear" -Kant.
Notebooks: either sorted chronollogically or thematically.
Post-its: scattered through one's (real or virtual) desktop.
Mind mapping: either on paper or software based.