What is Research gap and how to identify it?

Archpedia March 14, 2022

Research Gap:

A Research gap is a research area or any topic in the specialization that has not been addressed in the existing body of knowledge (literature). The research gap plays a very important role in justifying the novelty of your research (dissertation and thesis) as the researcher includes the research gap in their proposal to address it. so basically you can say that the research gap is the focused area of your dissertation or thesis that you trying to answer.

How to Identify the Research Gap:

Basically, to identify the research gap you must be smart enough as only a selective section of the published articles, dissertations, and thesis is only required to study.

before starting to review the literature you must have some questions about what has been done so far in the previous study and what has not been done? so these questions will allow you to be focused while reading and you can skip the unnecessary data.

you will get the research gap in the following sections;

suggestions & recommendations section for the further study
conclusion section
limitations of the study
discussion section

in special cases if you are looking for a methodological gap then you have to review the entire methodology in detail then you will find out the following;