Academic lobification refers to a collection of academic performance control strategies, methods, and means that a student deliberately hides academic behaviors, or deliberately lowers academic performance, or deliberately delays academic returns for a certain long-term purpose, but does not produce academic risks. Understanding academic lobification is essential to our ability to compensate for inherent deviations in the evaluation of students' academic performance, discover gifted student, reap benefits and minimize harms. It outlines a set of questions that are fundamental to this emerging interdisciplinary research field, including research object, research question, research scope, research method, and explores the technical, legal and other constraints on the study of academic lobification.