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Record W2407021461

A Computer System for Automatic Evaluation of Researchers' Performance.

2015· article· en· W2407021461 on OpenAlex
Ashkan Ebadi, Andrea Schiffauerova

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

Bibliographic record

VenueISSI · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
Topicscientometrics and bibliometrics research
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceMachine learningArtificial intelligenceCompetition (biology)Data science
DOInot available

Abstract

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The increasing number of researchers and the limited financial resources has caused a tight competition among scientists to secure research funding. On the other side, it has become even harder for funding allocation organizations to evaluate the performance of researchers and select the best candidates. However, it seems that the current evaluation methods are highly correlated with subjective criteria. In addition, the subjective nature of peer-review as one the most common methods in scientific evaluation calls itself for an accurate complementary quantitative method to help the decision makers. This paper proposes an automatic computer system, which is based on machine learning techniques for predicting the performance of researchers. The proposed system uses various features of different types as the input to a complex machine learning module to predict the performance of a researcher in a given year. The method provides the decision makers with fair comparative results regardless of any subjective criteria. Our results show the high accuracy of the proposed system in predicting the performance of researchers.

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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)0.086
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.022
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Bibliometrics
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch, Bibliometrics
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.966
Threshold uncertainty score0.993

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0860.022
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0180.049
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.907
GPT teacher head0.661
Teacher spread0.246 · 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