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Record W7160532405 · doi:10.5683/sp3/tldy6w

Replication Data for: Limited evidence of elevated microplastics in lower trophic levels downstream of wastewater treatment plants

2025· dataset· W7160532405 on OpenAlexaffabout
C M Wardlaw, K A Kidd, R S Prosser

Bibliographic record

VenueBorealis · 2025
Typedataset
Language
Field
Topic
Canadian institutionsUniversity of GuelphMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMicroplasticsTrophic levelEffluentSewage treatmentDownstream (manufacturing)WastewaterUpstream (networking)WatershedUpstream and downstream (DNA)

Abstract

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These datasets accompany a paper published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry titled "Limited evidence of elevated microplastics in lower trophic levels downstream of wastewater treatment plants". These data include the concentration, shape, colour, size and chemical confirmation of microplastic particles found in environmental samples of sediment, biofilm, effluent and aquatic insect collected from upstream and downstream of eight wastewater treatment plants in the Grand River watershed (Ontario, Canada). (2026-02-18)

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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
gemmaMetaresearch
Domain: Reproducibility · Genre: Dataset
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no
Not applicablehigh
gptno category
Domain: not available · Genre: Dataset
About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no
Not applicablehigh
models splitAgreement 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)0.004
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: Dataset · Consensus signal: Dataset
Teacher disagreement score0.301
Threshold uncertainty score0.599

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.026
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0030.007
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.001
Open science0.0040.003
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1680.064

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 head0.101
GPT teacher head0.345
Teacher spread0.243 · 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.

Metaresearch

The models disagree on parts of this classification; every voice is preserved in the section at the end of the page.

Study designNot applicable
DomainReproducibility
GenreDataset

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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Citations0
Published2025
Admission routes2
Has abstractyes

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