How Information in Grey Literature Informs Policy and Decision Making: The Need to Understand the Processes
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Our bibliometric research will examine a select set of documents in the Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center’s (HDIAC) collection. The focus will be on documents in the “Cultural Studies” focus area. There are over 210,000 documents in the HDIAC collection, and much of it is grey literature. Staff use a template that includes bibliographic information, keywords, task areas, and other descriptive information to catalog items for inclusion in HDIAC’s database. In staff discussions, it was discovered that some focus areas intersect with other focus areas. For example, Cultural Studies overlaps with the Medical, Alternative Energy, Critical Infrastructure Protection, and Homeland Defense & Security focus areas. The purpose of this research is to examine the intersects that Cultural Studies has with the other HDIAC focus areas by examining the keywords and task area terms that include the term “Cultural Studies.” This process will assist in clarifying the subject key words used to identify cultural studies and facilitate the tagging, acquisition, and discovery processes. It will also give staff a model they can use to gain a deeper understanding of how culture intersects with other disciplines. A bibliometric study will be conducted to evaluate the HDIAC database, Scientific and Technical Analysis and Research Tool (START), and quantify the Activity Index (AI) of the HDIAC database.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it