Find The Research Gap

How to find the research gap

1.     Write, the title of the topic you are interested in, using questions such as; why? what if?)

2.     Write a number of words (3 to 4) related to the topic as Keywords.

3.     Go to the Saudi Digital Library (Link)  or

a.     CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO)

b.     MEDLINE via PubMed 

4.     Use those Keywords and type it in the search engine and remmber;

a.     Using (AND) the results will contain All.

b.     Using (OR) the results will contain any of the keywords.

c.     Using (NOT) the results will excludes what you want to excludes

5.     Reduce search results using available tools such as year of publication and language

6.     Read the abstracts of all research and save the research that you think is relevant

7.     Read the remaining researches and write down what is missing.

8.     Make a Table for these articles including:

a.     Author name, year

b.     Aim and objective

c.     Methods, Sample, Gender, Location, Country

d.     Results

e.     Conclusion

f.      Recommendations

g.     Limitations

 

Now you have obtained the research gaps, search again for the gap that you would like to know more and write about it (research literature)

 

Grey literature includes:

• Theses and dissertations

• Conference papers 

• Government and nongovernment documents