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I see you've posted this in r/vim as well. That's not really how a research paper works. You don't crowdsource the work. You have a rough idea for a thesis: "Vim is 'better' than Emacs." It's too vague to research because it's not much of a thesis. You need to refine. What does it mean for one editor to be "better" than another? For what use-cases is it better? Why is it better? Is it actually better? etc. You'll end up with a much more specific thesis. That will naturally lead to questions which can be researched. e.g. The editor which is X is better for Y. Then you can research to see how each editor stacks up for feature X in use-case Y. And so on. The goal of impressing your teacher is nice, but you should make your primary goal to learn something by writing the paper. Impress yourself. Best of luck.

You could use Doom & get the best of both, but I guess im biased too. In terms of Org modules: Ref, Cite, Ivy/Helm Bibtex turn Emacs into a workhorse for research.