The phrase "a topic to study" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a subject or area of interest that one intends to learn about or research.
Example: "The professor assigned a topic to study for the upcoming research paper, focusing on climate change impacts."
Alternatives: "a subject to explore" or "an area to investigate".
To qualify, a student has to choose a topic to study and give an almost thesis-like presentation of their knowledge.
I wished to be at the frontier of knowledge production (rather than only apply known results) and valued curiosity over utility in picking a topic to study and the obvious choice of a field of study on exerting these criteria was science.
Eye tracking was also used as a form of input (Wang et al. 2006), by allowing students to select a topic to study by simply looking at a portion of the screen for a pre-specified time or answer questions using eye movements.
For such imputation, wide-range methods have been studied [ 29], but remain a topic to study in the case of malaria.
The assembly of subunits in protein oligomers is an important topic to study as a vast number of proteins exists as stable or transient oligomer and because it is a mechanism used by some protein oligomers for killing cells (e.g., perforin from the human immune system, pore-forming toxins from bacteria, phage, amoeba, protein misfolding diseases, etc).
There is some evidence that cravings are lessened by fasting, although this is a hard topic to study.
Emission of methane and ammonia are highly dependent on feed composition, barn design and operation, manure management making this a challenging topic to study experimentally.
The separation and classification of intense wind events into homogeneous families is a key topic to study the wind-excited response of structures and to determine the distribution of extreme wind velocities and extreme wind-induced effects.
It's a difficult topic to study, though.
Blackburn's view is that meditation is a fair topic to study, as long as robust methods are used.
But it's not a popular topic to study.
