Bibliographic record
Abstract
With this issue Volume 17(4), we have reached an important milestone. When the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship/Conseil canadien des PME et de l'entrepreneuriat (CCSBE/CCPME), acquired ownership of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (JSBE) and Faculty of Administration of the University of Regina undertook responsibility for publishing the journal, both did so with the understanding that journal would not be financially self-sufficient for some time, if ever. Recognizing the need for financial support, and the fact application for funding to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Aid to Research and Transfer Journals Program (SSHRC-ARTJ) could not be made for three years, the Faculty of Administration of the University of Regina agreed to provide up the substantial operating funds for fiscal years ending in 2003, 2004 & 2005. In July of 2004, an application for funding was made to the SSHRC-ARTJ program. By the time this issue is in readers' hands we will know the outcome of this application. With short term funding secured, plans were developed and implemented for 2003, 2004 and 2005. The objectives were largely operational including (1) the transfer of ownership and the development of administrative structures to handle subscription and publication issues, (2) the securing of a copy-editor/printer, (3) the redesign of the journal-size, cover, and format, (4) the creation of a journal web page, (5) the revision of the guidelines to authors, (6) the development of completely electronic paper submission, review, revision, and copy-editing process, (7) the rebuilding of the editorial review board with renowned Canadian and international scholars, and (8) most critically, the increase in the number and quality of paper submissions to support a return to publishing 4 issues per year. With the publication of Issue 17 (4), all of these objectives have been met. In particular, we have been successful in our objective of increasing the number and quality of submissions. Even with our current rejection rate that is in excess of 50%, we will have more than sufficient papers to publish 4 volumes per year. Therefore, beginning in 2005 with Volume 18 Issues 1-4, the JSBE will be published in January, April, July, and October. Further, because the response from authors has been so positive, rather than reject otherwise good papers because of lack of space, we have increased the number of full-length articles per issue from 4 to 5 beginning with issue 17 (3). In an ongoing effort to be relevant to all the constituent members of CCSBE/CCPME and our other readers, beginning with this issue we have added a new section to the journal. This section will consist of an article directed to practitioners. It will attempt to render a particular academic and/or theoretical topic useful in an applied sense. One exciting aspect of this section is that it is being done in partnership with the Small Enterprise Research (SER). SER is the journal of CCSBE/CCPME's sister organization the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand (SEAANZ). A description of the new section (Anderson, Gibson and Hindle) and the first such article presenting a five-step approach to applying state of the art theoretical material on opportunity identification in the real world (Hindle), appear next in the journal. We have been successful in creating a highly qualified and effective Editorial Review Board. Among the members are the top entrepreneurship scholars in Canada and world-class international scholars. The members of the editorial review board are committed to producing a top quality journal; and the results show this. In early 2004, the JSBE was reviewed by the Journal of Economic Literature and found of to be of sufficiently high standard to be included in the EconLit index. The JSBE is also under review for inclusion in the equally prestigious Social Sciences Citation Index. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".