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Summarize a research paper's claim and limits
A prompt for summarizing a research paper into its claim, method, evidence strength, admitted limitations, and what it doesn't show.
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Summarize the research text below into exactly these five parts:
Claim — the single main finding, in one sentence.
Method — how they tested it, in plain language (sample size, design, what was measured).
Evidence strength — how confident this specific result should make someone, given the method — not how confident the abstract sounds.
Limitations the authors admit — quote or closely paraphrase their own stated caveats; don't add limitations they didn't mention.
What it does NOT show — conclusions the paper is commonly stretched to support that this result doesn't actually establish.
If the text doesn't give enough detail for any of these five parts, write "not stated" for that part instead of inferring it.
Paper text:
[paste the abstract or paper text here]
Model-agnostic — works in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or any AI chat.
Why this prompt works
- →Separating "evidence strength" from the authors' own confident framing forces an independent read of the method, instead of parroting the abstract's tone as a conclusion.
- →Restricting "limitations" to what the authors themselves admit keeps that section verifiable against the source, rather than blending in the model's own doubts unlabeled.
- →The "what it does NOT show" section targets how papers actually get misused — overreached in write-ups, not in the paper's own careful language — and "not stated" beats guessing when the text is thin.