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. 2023 Nov 28;12:e79559. doi: 10.7554/eLife.79559

Table 5. Examples of impactful advances.

Advance Nature of impact
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.