Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since my last editorial, in the spring issue earlier this year, there have been a few significant events concerning the International Journal of Practice Development (IPDJ); I'd like very much to share an overview of these now. First, we had a face to face board meeting with members of the International Practice Development Collaborative (IPDC) in Toronto, Canada. Members of the Collaborative were very pleased with the progress of the IPDJ and have committed to providing funding that will enable it to continue being the primary publication for practice development papers and allow the editorial team at the Foundation of Nursing Studies to carry on growing the journal's reputation. I for one am very grateful to the IPDC for its confidence and continuing support for the journal. As a reminder this is our shared vision:
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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 | 0.006 | 0.048 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.032 | 0.025 |
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".