NOTEBOOKLM PROMPT LIBRARY

NotebookLM Prompts for Q1 Research Article Development

Use 75 focused prompts across four research stages and 15 subcategories to structure, compare, critique and position the literature for a defensible WoS Q1 article.

PROMPT FRAMEWORK

Four stages for developing a critical research article

Review the complete structure of the 15 NotebookLM prompt subcategories before exploring the detailed prompt bank.

Infographic showing four NotebookLM prompt stages and 15 subcategories for research article development: understand and structure, compare and synthesise, critically evaluate, and build novelty and contribution

CONFIGURE ONCE BEFORE USING THE PROMPTS

Configure NotebookLM Chat

Set the role, operating rules and response format once. The 75 task prompts below can then remain concise and focused.

01

Role

Define the research expertise and scholarly perspective NotebookLM should apply.

02

Rules

Ground every response in the uploaded sources and prevent unsupported information.

03

Output

Specify how comparisons, evidence, gaps and conclusions should be presented.

ROLE + RULES + OUTPUT

Recommended Configure Chat instruction

ROLE
Act as a senior academic researcher with expertise in critical literature synthesis and WoS Q1 research article development in [FIELD OR TOPIC].

RULES
• Use only information supported by the uploaded sources.
• Do not fabricate references, facts, findings, quotations, methods, or numerical values.
• Clearly state when information or evidence is unavailable in the sources.
• Support every important claim with citations to the relevant uploaded sources whenever possible.
• Distinguish clearly between direct source evidence and analytical inference.
• Compare and synthesise studies instead of producing paper-by-paper summaries.
• Preserve important methodological, theoretical, contextual, and evidential differences between studies.
• Treat all generated conclusions as provisional until verified against the original sources.

OUTPUT
• Begin with a direct answer to the requested task.
• Explain the supporting evidence and cite the relevant sources.
• Use a table when comparing multiple studies, theories, methods, datasets, findings, or limitations.
• Highlight similarities, differences, contradictions, research gaps, and strength of evidence.
• Separate strongly supported conclusions, tentative interpretations, and unsupported questions.
• End with three key takeaways and a short list of items requiring researcher verification.

Research integrity: Check generated interpretations against the original notebook sources. Do not treat an AI summary as a substitute for reading, evaluating and citing the source material.

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