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Record W1557396103

Developing countries given easier access to biomedical journals

2001· article· en· W1557396103 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Claudia Orellana

Bibliographic record

VenueEurope PMC (PubMed Central) · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicGlobal Health and Surgery
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPublicationLibrary scienceOperations researchMedicineComputer sciencePolitical scienceLawEngineering
DOInot available

Abstract

Some doctors disagree with CMAJ editorial decisions, and they used last month's CMA annual meeting in Quebec City to let the editor know. When British Columbia GP John O'Brien-Bell, a CMA past president, questioned the decision to publish a particular article on hospital downsizing ([www.cma.ca/cmaj

Stored with the screening record, where it is evidence for the labels above.

How this classification was reachedexpand

The three-model screen

all 5,600 screened works →

All three models called this out of scope.

stratum: about_only · design weight: 3321.24 (the sample is stratified; any rate computed without the weight is wrong)
Claude Opus 4.8T3 · adjacent, not in scope
genre: editorial/commentary
about Canada: yes
confidence: medium

Journalistic news item on biomedical journal access for developing countries and on disputes over CMAJ editorial decisions; news about scholarly publishing and journal editorial independence, mapped but not pooled.

GPT-5.6 (high)T3 · adjacent, not in scope
genre: other
about Canada: no
confidence: medium

This appears to be a news item about access to biomedical journals, making it contextual scholarly-communication material rather than analytic research.

Grok 4.5T3 · adjacent, not in scope
genre: editorial/commentary
about Canada: no
confidence: medium

News-style item on biomedical journal access and CMAJ editorial controversy maps scholarly communication but is not analytic metaresearch.

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.058
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication, Open science
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.999
Threshold uncertainty score0.000

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.058
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.005
Science and technology studies0.0040.004
Scholarly communication0.0130.008
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0070.011
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1100.018

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.054
GPT teacher head0.324
Teacher spread0.270 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2001
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