What Is the Unit of Research?

We just interviewed a joel chann for episode forty nine. He's done a lot of work on this question of what the the unit of research actually is. And in the way we conceptualize it and reward it to day, we treat it as if the whole paper is kind of the unit. But he says, no, the the unit is actually the concepts, or the the conceptual structure,. The individual arguments, the chains of reasoning. So that so there's a much to the paper, but what really matters is the novel part of your argument, or the summation of an entire body of work. If that makes sense? Yes, it does.