What does "lag behind" mean?

Question

The context is, "Published research on school bullying intervention efforts has certainly lagged behind the more voluminous literature in which the problem is described nad analyzed."

Answer 1

It means ranking far behind or dont have the ability to do something.

Answer 2

Lagging Behind Meaning

Answer 3

Normally, lag behind means like falling behind or something to that. But I have no idea what that sentence says towards the end

Answer 4

To lag behind is to fail to keep pace with.In the context it would mean published matter on school bullying is voluminous but practiacl efforts have failed to keep pace with what has been written.In other words efforts have lagged behind.

Answer 5

to lag behind means not moving /changing/ increasing as fast as others in a similar field. i.e not keeping pace with/ falling behind. In this context it means that literature on how to DEAL with bullying is not as common as literautr that describes bullying. In other words there is more information on what bullying is and why it happens than how to solve it.

Hope it makes sense :)

Answer 6

DNA lagging occurs during DNA replication because one strand is synthesized from the 3'->5' direction, where DNA replication only happens from the 5'->3' direction. Lagging strand DNA elongation continues via discontinuous synthesis of short fragments of DNA, Okazaki fragments. Initiated by RNA primers the fragments are made longer by DNA polymerase and DNA ligase joins the fragments together to form one long strand.

Answer 7

behind,

Answer 8

it's possible yeah