Table 5. Examples of impactful advances.
Advance | Nature of impact |
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Discoveries | Revisions of benchmark models (typically rare). |
Null results | Rejections of previously promising speculative models. |
Exploratory advances | Formulations of newly promising speculative models. |
Conceptual advances | Discoveries of explanatory gaps that enable exploratory advances. |
Methodological advances | Improvements in data or analysis that support all the other advances. |