Bibliographic record
Abstract
As an academic field, ‘information science’ has repeatedly been characterized as complex and interdisciplinary. When investigating “the properties and behavior of information, the forces governing the flow of information, and the means of processing information,” information science scholars converse with external disciplines (Borko, 1968, p. 3). They borrow theory, adopt frameworks, and apply methodologies from what have been termed ‘content’ or ‘conventional’ disciplines, e.g., mathematics, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, strategic management, psychology, communications, library science (Bates, 1999). Simultaneously, information science practitioners contribute their own insights regarding the organization, representation, form, management, and use of information and information systems in the conventional disciplines. By attending to all the conventional disciplines, information science behaves as a ‘meta-discipline’ (Bates, 1999). This issue aligns with this notion of information science as a ‘meta-discipline’ that is both parallel and perpendicular to conventional disciplines.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.020 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.024 | 0.022 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.018 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".