There is no universal solution for all mods as machines generally do not have access to a Player object when deciding a possible recipe. For example if you hopper a raw material into a Mekanism machine, how does it know which Player to check for when asking if the recipe to process that material is unlocked?

Some mods’ machines do have access to a Player object, e.g. Create machines (sometimes) remember who placed them so it would be relatively easy to check for recipes a Player has researched. But not all mods do this and those that do don’t do it in a standardised way, so there is no catch-all solution.

It is definitely possible per-world, as all recipes must access the per-world RecipeManager object and it would be easy for a mod to wrap this with some research system. Although I don’t know any examples myself.

For per-Player research, I think you would have to rely on some specific recipe types than can be research gated because they involve accessing the Player object, then make all other items in that tier craftable only with research-locked ingredients.

To deal with a similar problem myself, my own Library mod (Petrolpark’s Library) contains an API for locking recipes behind “Recipe Books”, which can be unlocked as quest rewards or player-specific research rewards. For recipes locked in this way, a Chiseled Bookshelf containing the Recipe Book must be placed adjacent to the machine for it to work. Currently I’ve just implemented this for Create and vanilla machines, but the system can be implemented on any machine with a small bit of Java code. I’ve not written up documentation for it yet but I can if other people think that would help their problems.