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Editor's Report for 2023 Nelson H. Minnich, Editor Ever since 1960, when he was appointed associate editor of the Catholic Historical Review, Msgr. Robert F. Trisco has been a towering figure at the journal. He was promoted to editor in 1963, a position he held until 2005 when he resigned that position to become once again associate editor with responsibilities for the book review and periodical literature sections of the journal. He was working on the periodical literature section of the Summer issue when he suddenly died at the end of July. His dedication to the journal was legendary. He insisted on publishing only serious scholarship properly formatted. He encouraged younger scholars and helped them to improve their articles. His eagle eye spotted misspelled foreign words or faulty punctuation. He took pride in an issue that was free of any errors. When difficulties arose, one could count on his sage advice. The debt owed to him by the journal is immense and his ever helpful, steady presence is much missed. May he rest from his labors in the joyful presence of the Lord he so faithfully served. Volume 109 of the journal consisted of 868 pages of articles, essays, fora, book reviews, miscellany, the quarterly sections Notes and Comments, Periodical Literature, and Other Books Received, and finally an Index, with an additional twenty-six pages of preliminary materials. In all, volume 109 contained 894 pages. Subsidies from authors and contributions from others made directly to the journal allowed for the addition of pages above those budgeted. Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York (honoring the memory of Msgr. Robert F. Trisco) and Professor Paul F. Grendler of Chapel Hill, NC (emeritus of the University of Toronto) have made generous contributions to the journal. Of the twelve regular articles published, excluding the ACHA Presidential Address of Brenna Moore and the "Journey in Church History" essay of Paul F. Grendler, one article treated a medieval topic, four an early modern European, four a late modern European, one an American, and three a Latin American theme. Nine of their authors came from American institutions, the others from German (1), Italian/Austrian (1), and Belgian/Peruvian (1) institutions. The volume also included an "In memoriam" tribute to Msgr. Robert F. Trisco and the transcription of the homily/eulogy given at his funeral by Cardinal Timothy Dolan. There were also three Forum Review Essays on books treating late modern, American, and Latin American topics, plus a Review Essay on the recent publications of Guillaume Cuchet. This volume featured the initial Digital Scholarship in the Field of Church History essay. Scholars assessed the contribution of various digital databases. We hope such essays will be a regular addition to the journal. [End Page 224] In 2023, the journal published 146 book reviews. The book reviews can be subdivided into the following categories: general (15), ancient (7), medieval (39), early modern (33), late modern (21), American (17), Latin American (8), Asian/Pacific (4), and African (2). Their authors came mostly from institutions in the United States (100 or 68%); England (13 or 8%); 4 or 3% each for Canada, Italy, and The Netherlands; 3 or 2% for Germany; 2 or 1.4% each for Israel, Poland, Vatican City, and Wales; one or .07% each for Austria, Finland, France, Japan, Malta, Mexico, Philippines, Scotland, South Africa, Turkey. Please see Table 1. Click for larger view View full resolution Table 1. Book Reviews Published in 2023 Because of the Covid-19 epidemic and Msgr. Trisco's declining health, over 300 books piled up awaiting a reviewer. Because it is difficut to find reviewers for older books, they were put aside, listed in the Other Books Received section, and donated to Mullen Library. The Autumn issue lists many of them. With the death of Msgr.Trisco, the Book Review team expanded so that those in charge of the various fieds are now: ancient Robin Darling Young, medieval Jennifer Paxton, early modern Nelson H. Minnich, late modern Arpad von Klimo, American Seth Smith, and Latin American Julia Young. To process better the book reviews, the journal now uses the Scholastica program. Ms. Julia Sedlack managed it in the Spring term, and Marirose...
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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 teacher head, 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".