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Record W4414085520 · doi:10.1038/s44319-025-00572-9

Coming of age: EMBO reports at 25

2025· editorial· en· W4414085520 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Bernd Pulverer

Bibliographic record

VenueEMBO Reports · 2025
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicAcademic Publishing and Open Access
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGlobalizationQuarter (Canadian coin)Scientific progressScientific discoveryFree accessOpen science

Abstract

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After a quarter century, EMBO reports has been part of some major changes in scientific publishing, including the globalization of research, exploding publication numbers, open access, open science and AI. Time to reflect on the role of a community journal in an era of universal access and discoverability. At 25, EMBO reports has been part of some major changes in scientific publishing. Time to reflect on the role of a community journal in an era of universal access and discoverability.

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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)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.026
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.041
Threshold uncertainty score0.137

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.026
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0040.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.003
Bibliometrics0.0030.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.003
Scholarly communication0.0120.007
Open science0.0040.003
Research integrity0.0160.019
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0410.034

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 head0.042
GPT teacher head0.395
Teacher spread0.352 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
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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