# underresearch
## English
### Etymology

Back-formation of underresearched. By surface analysis, under- +‎ research.

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA or enPR then please add some!
* (This entry needs an audio pronunciation. If you are a native speaker with a microphone, please record this word. The recorded pronunciation will appear here when it's ready.)

### Verb

underresearch (third-person singular simple present underresearches, present participle underresearching, simple past and past participle underresearched) (rare)
* Not to research to a sufficient extent.
** 1984, Mark J. Roe, “Bankruptcy and Mass Tort”, in Columbia Law Review‎, volume 84, number 4, →DOI, page 909:Development of a drug that will save lives today and generate immediate profits but years later pose grave risks to users will get the manager-developer promoted and keep stockholders—who are unaware of the risks a decade to come—happy. The manager may not even take time to become acquainted with those risks, or may underresearch them.
** 1998, Herman van der Wusten, “Geopolitics: its different faces, its renewed popularity”, in GeoJournal‎, volume 46, number 4, →DOI, page 234b:geopolitical analysis seems inordinately glued to a few states and to underresearch others. The major western countries have always been the main topic of interest.
** 2017, Jean-David Gerber, Gérald Hess, “From landscape resources to landscape commons: focussing on the non-utility values of landscape”, in International Journal of the Commons‎, volume 11, number 2, →DOI, page 725:the long-term functioning of a common-pool resource institution (CPRI) implies a sense of collective ownership of the resource (Ostrom 1990, 2010). […] While the use value of landscapes is put forward by powerful economic interests (e.g. the tourism industry), the defence of non-use values is by definition economically less profitable – at least in the short run. The initial focus of much of the neoinstitutionalist literature on relatively simple CPRI with model character (following rational choice approaches) might have led to underresearch power issues shaping the political decision-making procedures on the management of the commons (Theesfeld 2011; Kashwan 2015).

### Noun

underresearch (uncountable) (rare)
* Insufficient-in-extent research.
** 2009, Carola Suárez-Orozco, “Nuanced Understandings of Development. Essay Review of: Immigrant Stories: Ethnicity and Academics in Middle Childhood by C. García-Coll, A.K. Marks”, in Human Development‎, volume 52, number 6, →DOI, page 367:The authors begin by making a compelling case for why ethnic/racial identity is an important construct to study as a potential contributor to achievement pathways. They point to the established links of this construct with adolescent and young adult populations [Ogbu & Herbert, 1998; Spencer, 1999; Steele, 1997] and note the problem of undertheorizing and underresearch in middle childhood.
** 2019, Sharon Wolf, Dana Charles McCoy, “Household Socioeconomic Status and Parental Investments: Direct and Indirect Relations With School Readiness in Ghana”, in Child Development‎, volume 90, number 1, →DOI, page 275a:We find that within this Ghanaian context, household SES-based school readiness gaps exist, and parental investments—and particularly school involvement—account for some of these associations. These findings contribute to theory building by providing evidence in an underresearch context characterized by high levels of child poverty and low levels of adult literacy.