Internal consistency of the theory, consistency with other known things, retrodiction of known observations, simplicity of the theory (as compared to its explanatory power), revealing and resolving unsatisfactory aspects of alternative theories…
I agree that those kinds of things are probably “not obvious from a one-sentence synopsis” but I don’t see why they have to be “implicit” or require reading lots of research papers.
Internal consistency of the theory, consistency with other known things, retrodiction of known observations, simplicity of the theory (as compared to its explanatory power), revealing and resolving unsatisfactory aspects of alternative theories…
I agree that those kinds of things are probably “not obvious from a one-sentence synopsis” but I don’t see why they have to be “implicit” or require reading lots of research papers.