In my experience, research ideas generally come from asking questions and/or trying to answer questions. They come from trying to teach someone a concept and trying to predict how they will fail to understand that concept.
The more you know about a specific area, the more you become aware of unsettled questions, extremely worthy of investigation. So, to get new ideas, you must know as much as possible, often across disciplines.
In my experience, research ideas generally come from asking questions and/or trying to answer questions. They come from trying to teach someone a concept and trying to predict how they will fail to understand that concept.
There is no much to add... The best ideas are created if one tries to learn, asks and answers questions and - very important - tries to combine knowledge from (very) different topics. We must use RG for this purposes.
you can find what yo need here if you read papers here in your field and you can get one from discussing on any one paper , finally it is depend on your understanding to what you wanted in your work. regards
How we can find a new ideas in scientific research?
Perhaps you can explore the following:
Check for yourself what are the knowledge domain / area you have the deep interest and passion - try to read, surf (Internet) & brainstorm with others what are the new research problem arising from your knowledge domain that you want to address / resolve.
From the research problem derived, perform rigorous literature review through academic journals / articles that you can access from university library / e-library - this is very important step as the more literature you'd reviewed, you can crystalize your research problem better. You can refer to the following RG link on how to capture your learning after reviewing each article / book.
You can also attend research conferences, university's organized colloquiums etc. to see what people had presented, networking with speakers & others which can sometimes give you new ideas for research.
Joining RG or other similar social networking websites for researchers can help generate some ideas also.
During the literature review, you can start drawing your conceptual framework / research model which will be used to address / resolve your research problem. My personal experience is that you need to think, draw, reflect, redraw again etc. numerous times until you have a sanctified conceptual framework / research model for data collection & testing.
Read more in your field under investigation, summarize and generalize, and think with your current interest in mind, discuss extensively with colleagues or people in your field, etc. These are effective ways of finding new topics and ideas. I guess these are also the usual practice. Good luck!
The productive researchers rely on their own ideas and past work as the primary source of research ideas as other social scientists had predicted. While the literature is another valued source, of less value are ideas contributed by colleagues elsewhere, and the least important are ideas supplied by local colleagues. Administrators wishing to stimulate research productivity should try to lure the most creative researchers should also put emphasis on libraries and information retrieval services, and provide funds to attend professional meetings/ seminars/ symposia/ conferences.
it is possible to generate or find new ideas in research in the course of diagnosing a research problem or investigating a research problem or analysing data to identify the research findings or in arriving at conclusions based on the findings.
Every Science Fair project starts with an idea! Here are some tips for finding an idea that will make you want to push yourself to the limit:
Think about your hobbies, your interests, your favourite activities. Look around you; what do you find exciting? Do you like music? Sports?
Among the people close to you—teachers, parents, friends, aunts, uncles—is there someone who’s a science buff or works as a scientist? An amateur stargazer or birdwatcher, perhaps?
Have you recently observed a problem in your everyday life that you would like to solve?".....
Please, see the link to get ideas in your field.....
Most typically in science, answering one question inspires deeper and more detailed questions for further research. Similarly, coming up with a fruitful idea to explain a previously anomalous observation frequently leads to new expectations and areas of research. So, in a sense, the more we know, the more we know what we don't yet know. As our knowledge expands, so too does our awareness of what we don't yet understand...
The most scientific research generates new expectations, inspires new questions, and leads to new discoveries...
An approach for an upcoming researcher who is trying to find research questions to study is to look in the literature or at research priorities published by his respective professional inclinations.
Most new ideas are hardly “traceable” to one source or another. A given idea might have formed in my head during a conference, seeing how people were failing to address a certain issue, then crystallized during a discussion (brainstorming) with colleagues, but would never have occurred to me if not for a literature review I had performed a few months before.
One of the ways of finding new ideas in scientific research is perusing of literature. Review of literature opens researcher's eyes to see may gaps in scholarships and other dimensions or certain perspective through which a study may be carried out. New ideas may also be found through probing and inquisitive ability.
In my own experience, you've got to read a lot. Really a lot! And at the same time think and reflect. Reading a lot allows you to keep the pace with the state of the art - and hence yes: come with new ideas.