The way the mod works currently is wonky:

If you reached 80% of a mod progress on a research then change the factor a tenfold, you are now at 8%.
Plus, it breaks compatibility with the dubs mint research menu, and any other mod displaying research stats by their apparent values if the factor is updated. (finishing a research @ 2000 when the base cost is 1000 leads to progress bar overflow when the factor is reset)

Applying this factor to the research job output would deal with all these problems at once