Editorial: The Illustrious pedigree and importance of Western Geography
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Illustrious pedigree and importance of Western Geography.Western Geography is the open access academic scholarly journal of the Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers (WDCAG).This editorial argues that although times have changed and some question Western Geography continuing in the 2020s, this editor and others, contend Western Geography should press on.Western Geography has an esteemed pedigree of publishing and is important to faculty, students, the public and western geography.Western Geography was formally created in 1990 when Michael Edgell, then Chair of the University of Victoria (UVic) Geography department, wanted to establish a 'high impact' journal specific to the Pacific Northwest.Western Geography's predecessors were the Occasional Papers in Geography published by the British Columbia (BC) Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) and BC Geographical Series.This editorial will not cover the entire history of these three publications but will briefly summarize them to highlight their long-standing lineage.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.043 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.018 | 0.023 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.004 |
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".