| Inconsistency of data and knowledge quality between different observers | Jahre et al. (2012), Kieser and Leiner (2012), Hamet and Michel (2018) |
| Assuring safety and security of researchers in the field | Sundel (1999), Jahre et al. (2012), van den Muijsenbergh et al. (2016), Tanabe et al. (2018), Sohn (2018), Lykes and Scheib (2016) |
| Coordination, linguistic and communication barriers including varied technical terminologies | Lykes (2013), Pedraza-Martinez et al. (2013), Tanabe et al. (2015, 2018), van den Muijsenbergh et al. (2016), Kunz and Gold (2017) |
| Reflective long-term collaborative research is time consuming, and most HLSCM research works focus on urgent supply | Pedraza-Martinez et al. (2013), Jahre et al. (2015), Sohn (2018) |
| Remoteness of many humanitarian aid locations | Rutta et al. (2005), Nelson et al. (2010), Pedraza-Martinez et al. (2013), Prasad et al. (2017) |
| Damaged infrastructure impedes research | Rutta et al. (2005), Nelson et al. (2010), Jahre et al. (2012), Pedraza-Martinez et al. (2013), Prasad et al. (2017), Sohn (2018), Tanabe et al. (2018) |
| Highly contextualised research impedes generalisability of findings | Touboulic and Walker (2016) |