"methodological ground" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to mean the processes and methods used to support a particular argument, opinion or belief. For example, "Smith's argument was on strong methodological ground, backed up by numerous studies and reliable research."
But the research will not just shed light on controversial policies, it will also break new methodological ground, says Scoones.
The results of this study add to the methodological ground base in clinical balance assessment protocols by identifying parameters with the highest discriminating power of the most commonly applied balance assessment tests.
Curl's paper "breaks important methodological ground by describing a relatively low-cost, noninvasive method for the characterization of long-term dietary exposures," says Charles Benbrook, program leader of the Measure to Manage program at the Washington State University Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources.
All data have to be accounted for or explained, and, while often a perfectly reasonable explanation is that an outlier was derived from a methodologically flawed study, outliers need to be examined closely before being excluded on methodological grounds alone.
Some scientists criticized the study on methodological grounds.
And it has been challenged on its own methodological grounds, most recently in today's Nature article.
Equally importantly, students are also expected to develop a firm methodological grounding in the Study of Religion.
However, many studies that have advanced this claim have subsequently been criticized on methodological grounds, calling incomplete neutralization into question.
Nor do they reflect the views of the American Sociological Association, which takes the position that the conclusions he draws from his study of gay parenting are fundamentally flawed on conceptual and methodological grounds".
A team of scientists attempting to review the literature on hangover cures were able to assemble only fifteen articles, and then they had to throw out all but eight on methodological grounds.
Adjusting for these differences is complicated, and Kirsch's early work was roundly criticized on methodological grounds by Donald Klein, of Columbia University, who was one of the key figures in the transformation of psychiatry to a biologically based practice.
