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Record W4404086179 · doi:10.1002/cl2.70005

New search guidance for Campbell systematic reviews

2024· editorial· en· W4404086179 on OpenAlexaff
H. Robson MacDonald, Sarah Young

Bibliographic record

VenueCampbell Systematic Reviews · 2024
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicMeta-analysis and systematic reviews
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychology

Abstract

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In a recent assessment of Campbell systematic reviews, we found that only about 10% of reviews published since 2017 had cited the previous Campbell searching guidance (Young et al., 2024).We hope that the updated version of the Campbell searching guidance will become a routine reference document for all Campbell authors moving forward.We also encourage authors new to conducting systematic review searches in the social sciences to take the Campbell Collaboration's online course on systematic reviews and metaanalysis (Unit 3 covers searching and is an excellent companion resource to the search guidance), which, as of the writing of this editorial, is freely available through the Open Learning Initiative (Valentine et al., 2022).With the support of these resources, and by involving a trained information specialist, researchers will be well equipped to produce thorough, robust, and transparent searches to support high-quality evidence synthesis and contribute to building a credible and trustworthy evidence base.

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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)0.208
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.511
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.792
Threshold uncertainty score0.977

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.2080.511
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0060.010
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0140.016
Bibliometrics0.0600.076
Science and technology studies0.0040.004
Scholarly communication0.0150.020
Open science0.0120.016
Research integrity0.0200.015
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.2560.096

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 head0.696
GPT teacher head0.549
Teacher spread0.147 · 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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
DomainMethods
GenreEditorial

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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