A “frame” ca be both a boundary for describing what to pay attention to and what to ignore like a picture frame (left) or a scaffold for building or supporting structure.

What is a “Research Framework”?

It’s not an catch-all term for a list of stuff you just thought up.

Working in an emerging field of science and engineering means that a lot of new journal articles that claim to be “frameworks” show up in my Inbox with a request that I review them prior to publication. That’s the way that science is supposed to work. Scholars submit research papers for review by…