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Record W2605735265 · doi:10.23907/2014.063

Principles for Sound Scientific Writing

2014· article· en· W2605735265 on OpenAlexaff
Gregory G. Davis, J. Keith Pinckard

Bibliographic record

VenueAcademic Forensic Pathology · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicAcademic Writing and Publishing
Canadian institutionsOffice of the Chief Medical Examiner
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCopyingReading (process)Subject (documents)Computer scienceEpistemologyLinguisticsWorld Wide WebLawPhilosophy

Abstract

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Scientific writing is the communication of a new idea that will alter or enlarge the reader's understanding of the subject of the article. Scientific writing follows a standard template defined by the journal that published the article. Authors greatly increase the chance that their manuscript will be published by reading and following the journal's instructions to authors. Every word, image, and diagram in an article should serve the purpose of communicating the author's new idea effectively and forcefully. The title, introduction, method, results, discussion, and reference list serve different purposes within the article and therefore are constructed differently. The abstract is a distillation of the essential points of the article and should always contain the central idea that the article was written to convey. Anyone listed as an author must have made a meaningful contribution to the work; that is, without each author's contribution, the article simply would not exist. Authors must avoid plagiarism by neither copying the writings of others nor copying their own writings or images used in previous publications. Plagiarism is easily avoided by taking notes, not quotes, from articles that serve as references and then writing the new manuscript from these notes; this system changes the original wording of the references twice and transforms the concepts into the author's voice.

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.

How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.234
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.405
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: Reporting · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.766
Threshold uncertainty score0.945

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.2340.405
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0030.003
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0050.003
Bibliometrics0.0100.007
Science and technology studies0.0150.087
Scholarly communication0.0500.018
Open science0.0090.017
Research integrity0.0210.049
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.039

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 head0.079
GPT teacher head0.280
Teacher spread0.202 · 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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
DomainReporting
GenreMethods

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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