A scientific article including limitations, their results and the ways how these results can be reduced has invaluable importance in terms of researchers, readers, society, scientific progress and the quality of scientific papers. However, in our country, particularly in the field of health, theoretical knowledge on this subject is rather limited. The purpose of this review article is to demonstrate the importance of limitations section in scientific articles, its characteristics, what kind of limitations researchers may encounter in scientific research process, and the ways that can be followed to overcome them. It appears that limitations section is mostly ignored; either not written at all or incomplete or poorly written in the present articles in the field of health including the ones in our country. Moreover, there is no information about the results caused by the limitations and the ways to reduce or eliminate them. This situation adversely affects the validity, reliability and generalizability of the research findings. Such a result is related to the knowledge, writing skills, perspectives, and approaches of the authors, the editorial policy of periodicals and the assessment of editors and peer reviewers. If there are limitations in scientific articles and graduation theses, they must absolutely be written and guidelines and instructions regarding correct writing of this section should be developed
Key words: Limitation, delimitation, scientific papers, periodical Article Language: Turkish English
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