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KindShowingImportancePrizesTopicMetascience
Research on the scientific enterprise itself: how funding, incentives, study design, peer review, publication, and statistical practices shape the reliability of published results. Covers replication, bias, and research-integrity findings about science and the literature; excludes the object-level scientific claims those studies investigate.
Proportion of authors citing a scholarly work who have read that work
25 to 85%QuantityA quantity: a value the graph estimates rather than a proposition it affirms or denies. Its estimate stands where a claim's status would.constitution →Scholarly Citation Practicesimportance · minorImportance 0.30, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
Proportion of citations in peer-reviewed articles that do not support the claims they are cited for
≈ 9%QuantityA quantity: a value the graph estimates rather than a proposition it affirms or denies. Its estimate stands where a claim's status would.constitution →Scholarly Citation Practicesimportance · minorImportance 0.30, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
LLM agents can trace scientific claims' provenance and detect errors by replicating published analyses.
SupportedThe evidence favors the claim, but the examination is incomplete or the evidence is indirect.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Large language modelsimportance · minorImportance 0.35, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
Identical misprints recurring across reference lists show that many citers copy references without consulting the original work
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →causalA claim that one thing brings about another, not merely that the two go together.constitution →Scholarly Citation Practicesimportance · settledImportance 0.20, from 0 to 1 · settled: uncontested, so low even when much depends on it. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
Mochizuki's IUT papers were peer-reviewed and published in Publications of RIMS
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Inter-universal Teichmüller theoryIUT Corollary 3.12 gapimportance · settledImportance 0.15, from 0 to 1 · settled: uncontested, so low even when much depends on it. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
Industry-sponsored studies report conclusions favorable to the sponsor more often than independently funded studies
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Sponsorship bias in researchimportance · minorImportance 0.40, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
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