The phrase "less researched" is a perfectly valid and grammatically correct part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to refer to an area or topic that has not been researched as much as another area or topic. For example, "This disease is much less researched than its more common counterparts."
It exists in Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Japan, and probably also exists in other countries in South Asia – but this is less researched.
Though "Voluntary Madness" is vastly less researched than her first book — a fairer subtitle might be "My Five Weeks in the Loony Bin" — the project is conceptually similar: Vincent checks herself into three additional institutions, masquerading as a mental patient who tells the intake counselor that she doesn't feel "safe" (the magic word) in the real world.
However, the deformation mechanism of rock salt is relatively less researched in China.
We have claimed that whereas the economic impact of financial remittances has received considerable attention, the political consequences of these flows are much less researched.
Ironically, the current study was unique in that it formally evaluated measurement invariance across five less researched educational systems/nations/cultures and also addressed other psychometric issues normally not discussed in large scale assessments.
Although many studies have dealt with TRMs that are designed primarily for a market-driven technology planning process, a technology-driven TRM is far less researched than a market-driven one.
Less researches mentioned the individual's intention to repurchase as the consequence after be participating a brand community.
We are now less research intensive than China.
Less research has focused on benefits to mentors.
QUESTION FROM TONI: Less research, fewer academic journals, less publishing, more teaching.
Alternative methods of pest control get little funding, and less research.
