During proposal defence and even viva evaluation, most of the student coined a terminology called "Base Paper"
Their everything comes from base paper i.e. Gap, theory, model and even methodology. How can one extract research gap by following the future recommendation of single so called 'base paper'
I believe thorough literature review must be conducted before extracting any research gap. One single paper (base paper) might not be enough.
To my experience, this terminology, "base paper", comes from and is reinforced by the culture of the institution to which that particular student belongs to. For example, if the institution/supervisor is to reinforce the student to delineate a research gap either from the limitations or future recommendations section of recent years then the student is likely to refer to that "base paper". In such cases, the motivation of the supervisors/institution is to just make some minor theoretical contribution, such as new relationships within the existing theory, rather practice or significant theory development. However, if the motivation of the supervisors or culture of the institution is to do meaningful social impact research then the supervisors are more likely to reinforce students to delineate the gap from the practice such that the potential research project not only makes theoretical contributions but also societal impact. In such a case, the student has to draw on and refer to diverse ranges of studies rather one single paper. Furthermore, such an approach can also reinforce the grounded theory development.
We should discourage it strongly, it is far better to pick gap from practise, and then from literature.
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