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Record W4413022300 · doi:10.3897/neobiota.100.143736

Transparency and reproducibility in invasion science

2025· article· en· W4413022300 on OpenAlex
Fabio Mologni, Jason Pither

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueNeoBiota · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicSpecies Distribution and Climate Change
Canadian institutionsOkanagan University CollegeUniversity of British Columbia, Okanagan CampusUniversity of British Columbia
FundersUniversität Wien
KeywordsReproducibilityTransparency (behavior)Computer scienceChemistryChromatographyComputer security

Abstract

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Policymakers and practitioners overseeing invasive species management depend on reliable research for guidance. Transparency and reproducibility are core features of reliable research, and prerequisites for outcomes to be independently replicated within the same or different systems. These features are evidently lacking in many science disciplines, including Ecology. In this discussion paper, we first report the findings of an assessment of 49 primary research studies that were part of a systematic mapping effort, showing that invasion science research exhibits the same shortfalls as ecology research more broadly. For instance, only one study explicitly considered statistical power in the methods describing study design, and only 2 studies provided access to both data and code, which is the minimum requirement for computational reproducibility. We then discuss the implications that low statistical power has for published invasion science research, for designing studies, and for policymakers and practitioners relying on primary research to inform their decisions. We then make specific recommendations, targeting the same stakeholders as well as publishers, on how to maximize the reliability of invasion science research moving forward. This includes explicitly considering and ideally estimating statistical power, undertaking a study pre-registration, making all relevant code and non-sensitive raw data accessible and useable, and devising and upholding clear and consistent policies on transparent reporting and open materials.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.120
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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 head0.023
GPT teacher head0.273
Teacher spread0.250 · 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