The field’s boundary is not a line. It is a region.

Reviews longitudinal, experimental, and genetic study designs and what they enable for advancing gambling knowledge; the object is research methodology and study design, though it is field-oriented.

This explicitly examines research methodologies used to advance knowledge in gambling studies.

Reviews longitudinal, experimental, and genetic methods as tools to advance gambling knowledge; domain methods guidance, not study of research itself.

Critical review of the concepts and measures used in the attachment literature, explicitly flagging insufficiently demonstrated validity and weak empirical rigor; sits on the boundary between domain theory and a critique of measurement practice.

The article evaluates concepts and measurement approaches used in attachment research, making research measurement its primary object.

Domain psychology review of attachment-related constructs and measures; advances developmental theory rather than studying research as practice.

Comparative case study assessing the relative strengths of logic models versus the action model/change model schema as planning and evaluation tools; the object is evaluation methodology, which sits on the boundary between applied evaluation practice and research methods.

This comparative case study evaluates program-evaluation models and their properties as methodological tools.

Compares logic models for planning a learning-community program; program evaluation methods, not evaluation of research.

Briefing note assessing espionage and security threats to Compute Canada's national supercomputing infrastructure; object is the governance of Canadian research infrastructure, though it sits on the T2/T3 boundary as a policy briefing.

The briefing analyzes security risks and responses involving Canadian research supercomputing infrastructure.

Policy briefing on security threats to Canadian research supercomputers, relevant to the research ecosystem but not analytic metaresearch.

Archival history of how political science became a taught discipline in UK universities, tracing chairs, subject associations and curricula; the object is an academic discipline's formation.

It reconstructs the history of political-science teaching and curricula, not research practice.

Historical study of politics as a taught university discipline; adjacent history of the academic field.

Statistics Canada CANSIM table of research and development expenditure by Canadian innovative plants; the object is R&D activity and its funding in Canada, though the record is a repackaged statistical table rather than a study.

The dataset documents Canadian research and development activity as part of the national research system.

Packaged industrial innovation R&D expenditure statistic for manufacturing plants, not a study of research practice.

Tutorial introducing plant scientists to structural equation modeling, reviewing its principles and offering guidelines on when it is appropriate; the oat field trial is an illustrative vehicle and the object is statistical practice in a research community.

Structural equation modeling is used to analyze oat yield, so the method is not the object of study.

Primary aim is introducing SEM as statistical practice for plant scientists, with guidelines on when SEM is appropriate.

Survey of factors behind the use of political tactics in academic promotion among university professors in Venezuela; grounded work on the academic workforce and careers, but framed as organizational behavior.

It studies political tactics in university professors' career advancement, making the academic research workforce the object.

Organizational-politics survey of professors’ promotion tactics; object is workplace behaviour, not research practice or the research workforce as such.