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Record W2165773703 · doi:10.1093/library/8.4.387

STC Publication Statistics: Some Caveats

2007· article· en· W2165773703 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Library · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMedieval Literature and History
Canadian institutionsToronto Public Health
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndex (typography)HistoryPeriod (music)ClassicsStatisticsGenealogyArtMathematicsComputer scienceWorld Wide Web

Abstract

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Abstract The statistics for publication in the period 1475-1640 published by Maureen Bell and John Barnard in 1992, and reprinted in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain a decade later, were compiled not from the entries in the revised Short-Title Catalogue but from the chronological index to those entries. They substantially exaggerate the number of actual editions recorded by STC. A similar reliance on that index instead of the entries themselves led John N. King, in some statistics published in 1999, to inflate the eleven mid-Tudor editions of the Bible in English into more than a hundred alleged editions in more than one language.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.594
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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 head0.020
GPT teacher head0.206
Teacher spread0.186 · 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