From a recent email exchange with a collaborator on a paper that a bunch of us are working on:
Yes, it’s definitely a methodology paper. But, given that we don’t have any theorems or simulation studies, the motivation for the methodology has to come from the application, no?
IMHE (In My Humlbe Experience), theorems are far from applications (though reader(s) could raisee its voice), though simulations often reval the real nature.
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"In theory, theory is just like practice. But in practice it's not"