Research and evidence
Research and evidence is a field in its own right here: how findings are produced, recorded, reviewed and corrected determines whether evidence on systemic risk is fit for those who must act on it.
- 01In briefThe short answer
- 02Three mandatesThe field, seen three ways
- 03The systemic questionEvidence that can be traced and corrected
- 04FrameworksOpen science and integrity references
- 05CouplingsThe research infrastructure of the Consortium
- 06GroundingThe methods behind the field
- 07Key termsTerms used on this page
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The short answer.
Research and evidence as a field covers how knowledge about risk is produced, reviewed, recorded and published so that it can be trusted, reused and corrected. In the Nexus Consortium it is studied as science at GCRI by Nexus Registry and Nexus Labs as well as governed at GRF by Research Nexus; this gateway links those platforms and the methods they share.
Systemic exposure in World.
Where people and networks concentrate, the exposure through which shocks travel between systems, shown for World as an example geography for this subject.
The field, seen three ways.
Financial understanding
No platform yet in this field.
Evidence that can be traced and corrected.
Cross-sector analysis combines data and models from many sources under different licences, quality regimes and update cycles. Without persistent identifiers, provenance records and version control, a figure in a report cannot be traced to the run that produced it, and an error cannot be followed to the decisions that used it.
- Persistent identifiers for people, organisations, datasets and outputs.
- Provenance chains from source to published figure.
- Correction and retraction practice that reaches downstream users.
Open science and integrity references.
| Framework or body | What it governs or supplies |
|---|---|
| UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science | Principles and practices of open science |
| FAIR and CARE principles | Data stewardship and indigenous data governance |
| COPE core practices | Publication ethics |
| ORCID, ROR and DataCite | Identifiers for researchers, organisations and data |
The research infrastructure of the Consortium.
- Nexus Registry: identifiers and records.
- Nexus Labs: experimental methods.
- Nexus Reports: editing and publication.
The methods behind the field.
- Data engineering, interoperability and stewardship
- Digital identity and public digital systems
- Cybersecurity and cryptography
- Probability and statistics
- Uncertainty quantification and model validation
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Systems engineering
- Causal inference and impact evaluation
- Policy, institutional and decision science
- Network science and contagion
- Complex systems and agent-based modelling
- Optimization and operations research
- Decision analysis under uncertainty
- High-performance, cloud and edge computing
Terms used on this page.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Reproducibility | Obtaining consistent results using the same data and analysis code as the original study. |
| Evidence synthesis | The structured collection, appraisal and combination of evidence from many studies to answer a question. |
| Research governance | The rules, institutions and practices that decide how research is commissioned, reviewed, shared, corrected and taken up, from funder policies to institutional codes. |
| Replicability | Obtaining consistent results in a new study that collects new data to answer the same question. |
Where this page's references lead.
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
Questions and answers.
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