How to raise relevant scientific problems by identifying research gaps
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https://doi.org/10.36881/ma.v1i1.644Keywords:
problema científico, relevancia, brecha de investigación, planteamiento del problema, preguntas de investigación cuantitativa, preguntas de investigación cualitativaAbstract
The objective of this review article was to analyze the process of posing relevant scientific problems based on the identification of research gaps, in order to satisfy the need of thesis students and young researchers, who require guidance to carry out research whose contribution to knowledge is significant. The methodology consisted of the search and analysis of documents that addressed the issues of scientific relevance, research gaps, and the approach to problems in the different research approaches: quantitative, qualitative, and mixed. The search results reflect that, specifically, the literature on the concept of research gaps is scarce, especially in Spanish, hence the contribution of this work to the subject of study. It is concluded that the effective identification of research gaps could lead to the posing of relevant scientific problems.
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