 innovation in research methodologies innovation in research methodologies 97 admin mon 10142019 1840 number of and description of research methodologies that have been developed or improved the indicator describes the longterm contribution of an initiative project to improving future research thereby leading to further knowledge that could lead to creating positive impacts additional quantitative qualitative research methodology  specific techniques adopted in research processes to collect assemble and evaluate data scientific report initiative project s internal data count the number of methodologies advanced or developed by the initiative project provide a narrative description of those advances and developments free text number in physical units input number of methodologies annually annually the development of new methodologies might not always be related to future impacts therefore the quality of the methodological improvements needs to be assessed yes see proctor et al 2015 p 810 available at  https implementationsciencebiomedcentralcom articles 101186 s1301201502745 research methodologies 