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Record W3194997003

Requesting Reprints of Scientific Publications

2002· article· en· W3194997003 on OpenAlexaffabout
Vlado Zitko

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
Topicscientometrics and bibliometrics research
Canadian institutionsFisheries and Oceans Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReprintLibrary scienceDeveloping countryPolitical scienceBusinessAccountingComputer scienceEconomic growthEconomics
DOInot available

Abstract

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The results of requesting reprints by writing to authors are described. The median time to receive a reprint is about 30 days. Unfortunately, for 42 % of countries, more than 33% of the requests do not succeed. For another 42% the failure rate is 20-32%, and for 16% of the countries the rate is below 20%. The fraction of the unsuccessful requests is higher for requests from the majority of developing countries. Even for some developed countries the failure rate is high (USA, UK, Germany, and Canada – 38, 30, 31, and 30%, respectively). It is not possible to rely on reprint requests alone to keep up with the literature.

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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)0.013
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.138
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Bibliometrics, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Reproducibility · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.987
Threshold uncertainty score0.690

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0130.138
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0140.024
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0090.005
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.5160.536

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 head0.567
GPT teacher head0.541
Teacher spread0.026 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designObservational
DomainReproducibility
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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Published2002
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