Generative AI tools may be useful at different stages of the research process as summarized in "ChatGPT and AI in higher education" by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Culture Organization (UNESCO).
- Research design
- Generate ideas for research questions or projects
- Suggest data sources
- Data collection
- Search archives and datasets
- Translate sources into other languages
- Data analysis
- Code data
- Suggest themes or topics for analysis
- Writing up
- Improve writing quality
- Reformat citations and references
- Translate writing