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A Future for Soil Science

2006· article· en· W2415126024 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Philippe C. Baveye

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Soil and Water Conservation · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicSoil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSoil waterSoil scienceEnvironmental science

Abstract

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The discipline of soil science is experiencing a profound crisis. Every few months, it seems, another soil science department in some university in the world changes its name to one in which the word “soil” no longer appears. Growing numbers of researchers are also lobbying for newly-concocted expressions like “hydropedol-ogy” or “critical zone science” to replace the allegedly outmoded appellation of “soil science.” These trends are accompanied by a sharp decrease in the clientele of most soil science programs. Results of institutional and graduate student surveys carried out in 1992 and 2004 indicate that enrollment in M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs in soil science in U.S. and Canadian universities has dropped on average by about 40 percent during the past decade (Baveye et al., 2006). Similar declines are also manifest in other countries, such as the United Kingdom, where most university-based soil science units have disappeared. In terms of publications, the number of peer-reviewed articles on soils-related issues published every year has grown exponentially in the last two decades, with a very significant acceleration in the last five years. There is undeniable interest in soils …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.731
Threshold uncertainty score0.116

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 communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.203
Teacher spread0.191 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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Citations10
Published2006
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