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Record W4413433700 · doi:10.1002/asi.70017

Documenting change: Conceptualizing transition through an information lens

2025· article· en· W4413433700 on OpenAlexaff
Ian Ruthven, Jenny Bronstein, Alison Hicks, Jette Seiden Hyldegård, Pamela J. McKenzie, Gunilla Widén

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInformation Society and Technology Trends
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTransition (genetics)Through-the-lens meteringLens (geology)Computer scienceCognitive sciencePsychologyOpticsPhysics

Abstract

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Abstract This special issue of the “Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology” examines transitions from an informational perspective. The 10 papers included in this issue present diverse accounts of how people experience personal and professional transitions and the role of information within these transitions. In this editorial, we place these contributions within the wider context of the study of transitions, and provide a thematic analysis of these contributions, their methodological and theoretical approaches, and how issues of space, time, emotions, and agency appear within transitions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Direct model labels (unvalidated)

Per-model category and study-design labels from the labeling rounds. They are machine output, unvalidated, and the disagreement between models ships as data. No study design here is MEDLINE-validated yet.

Model armCategoriesStudy designConfidence
gemmano category
Domain: not available · Genre: Empirical
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no
Theoretical or conceptuallow
gptno category
Domain: not available · Genre: Methods
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no
Theoretical or conceptuallow
models agreeAgreement compares identical category sets and study designs across arms.

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)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.022
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.021
Threshold uncertainty score0.059

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.022
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0050.005
Science and technology studies0.0080.053
Scholarly communication0.0210.046
Open science0.0030.010
Research integrity0.0040.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.332
Teacher spread0.308 · 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

Labeled directly by 2 models reading the full record.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical · Methods

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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