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Record W3084783588 · doi:10.1016/s2214-109x(20)30416-2

Elements of trust in peer review (and our annual thanks)

2020· article· en· W3084783588 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Zoë Mullan

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Lancet Global Health · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicAcademic Publishing and Open Access
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScopusScrutinyPopularityPeer reviewNegotiationMedical journalMedicineInternet privacyLibrary sciencePublic relationsPolitical sciencePsychologyMEDLINEComputer scienceLaw

Abstract

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This year the traditional academic peer review model has come under scrutiny like never before. Does it hinder the rapid dissemination of information vital to clinical and public health decision making? Can it be manipulated? Does it fail to prevent publication of flawed or fraudulent work? It would be difficult to answer any of these questions in the negative, so can we really trust peer review to identify the most relevant and reliable scientific research? This is the question posed for Peer Review Week 2020, marked during Sept 21–25.

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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)0.246
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.633
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: Evaluation · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.754
Threshold uncertainty score0.929

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.2460.633
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.002
Bibliometrics0.0050.004
Science and technology studies0.0090.034
Scholarly communication0.0510.039
Open science0.0060.028
Research integrity0.0220.040
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0250.038

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 head0.193
GPT teacher head0.509
Teacher spread0.315 · 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
DomainEvaluation
GenreCommentary

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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