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Record W4365152349 · doi:10.1093/mictod/qaad018

Supplementary Information – An Anachronism?

2023· article· en· W4365152349 on OpenAlexaff
R.F. Egerton

Bibliographic record

VenueMicroscopy Today · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicMeta-analysis and systematic reviews
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAnachronismGeologyPolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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There seems to be a growing tendency for scientific papers to become bifurcated, with more detailed material hidden away as “supplementary information.” As a reader and a reviewer, I have often found this arrangement awkward or even frustrating; the advertised supplementary information is sometimes hard to locate, and there is no standardized way of accessing it. The trend may have started in journals such as Science and Nature, which have a page limit. But in an era where increasingly few papers are read in print format, and where electronic storage is so cheap, both page limits and supplementary information seem hardly necessary. The traditional way of dealing with more detailed material is to add an appendix at the end of the text, following the references. If the word “appendix” appears archaic and “supplementary information” sounds more trendy, it could be labeled as such. The main idea is to keep all the material together and readily accessible, and to ensure that nothing is lost when the article is archived. Naturally there will be exceptions, such as video files or large files containing metadata. In some branches of science, this is rarely an issue. But where videos are required, they could be accessed via a URL link in the main article. A standard digital format would help to ensure accessibility for future generations of microscopists.

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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)0.039
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.460
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Reporting · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.961
Threshold uncertainty score0.743

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0390.460
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0050.006
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0060.007
Open science0.0030.005
Research integrity0.0060.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.4790.083

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 head0.495
GPT teacher head0.527
Teacher spread0.032 · 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 designNot applicable
DomainReporting
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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