Dear Dr, Hisham,

Novelty and innovation are important challenges facing researchers especially in developing countries with very hard access to advanced technology. Poor finance and support could be other factors confronting researchers in our societies. Lack of governmental strategic planning put many obstacles in front of scientific research also.

Regards

SM Najim

IN OUR SETUP ,PEOPLE WORTH OF DOING RESEARCH HAVE BECOME MONEY MINDED.

Some challenges are:

Access to high quality data, access to data modeling software, lack of good collaborators,  also access to and understanding of prior research in the field, as well as in other scientific areas (it is good to read research across a wide spectrum of topics so you can sometimes extend ideas and work in other areas to your topic of research). Some researchers do not have a good background in fundamentals and do not have access to journals and other resources. The internet has changed that to a great extent, with google scholar, researchgate, etc. as well as open source software such as python, octave, R and so on.

Dear Dr, Hisham,

Novelty and innovation are important challenges facing researchers especially in developing countries with very hard access to advanced technology. Poor finance and support could be other factors confronting researchers in our societies. Lack of governmental strategic planning put many obstacles in front of scientific research also.

Regards

SM Najim

Lack of adequate support by the policy makers and fund & resource constraints are the major challenges faced by the researchers of the developing nations today.

Dear Dr.  Hisham,

You should be offering something new to the field. 7 Research Challenges (and how to overcome them) see website:

https://www.waldenu.edu/connect/newsroom/publications/articles/2010/01-research-challenges

Regards

KS Al-Niaeem

There are several groups of challenges that can be nested. If a researcher does not have proper knowledge and abilities to pick up the correct problem and to solve it, he will write a bad paper (although it may be published in bad journal).

Let us talk now about the problems of talented researchers who have passed the first point. As Dilip says, there may be a problem in finance. Not all researchers are rich enough to do what they think is important but is not financed.

If they are talented and have finance, the problems mentioned by Vikas can be not real obstacles in most of the cases. Google search allows to access most of the literature, while software can be bought. Bad collaborators is probably a problem in the past individual decisions. We have a freedom to select those collaborators that we need. If we are not good enough or have little money for project, then it may be a problem.

The main difficulties of the researchers have been and are find financing for their research.

Lack of funds and proper guidance.

The main challenge of a researcher is funds for conducting the research activity

I agree that funds are very important. However, some researchers continue to do science even without funds. I remember that in early 1990s after economic reforms Russian scientists often got salary as small as $10 per month (!) and even with delay. But some of them continued to go to work, because they could not imagine their life without it.

lack of trained researchers, poor public private partnerships, lack of code of conduct/research ethics, shortage of resources, limited funding, poor infrastructure management, ineffective educational system, poor technological advancement

I agree with all of the mentioned above, but:

The researcher's problems vary according to the country in which he is located. In rich and advanced countries, most facilities are available, and therefore the researcher's characteristics and skills are most important,

In the poor and developing countries, there are many obstacles that have nothing to do with the researcher but relating to the state policy and its interest and potential

I agree with you. I was talking from the perspective of developing nations

I agree with your view Ronen. Supervisors who are not mentors, some lecturers engage in research just for d purpose of publishing n promotion