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Scientific and editorial integrity
Everything The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) publishes is reviewed on method, labelled by evidence type, open to criticism and corrected in the open. The standards for GCRI pages, papers and reports are below: review, method disclosure, criticism and corrections. Institutional influence cannot decide a scientific conclusion. Part of trust and accountability.
Scientific and editorial integrity in four parts.
Four standards for everything published.
The standards apply equally to a web page, a technical paper and a flagship report.
Accepted on method
Qualified, conflict-managed reviewers and the publisher accept work on its method, not on who funded or hosted it.
Disclosed and checkable
Each finding links to its sources, methods and review, with its uncertainty stated.
Welcome and recorded
Dissent and adverse findings are preserved, and a rejected recommendation receives a reasoned disposition.
Report to outcome.
Fig.How a reported error is reviewed and corrected. Design, not a record.
Every result says what kind of evidence it is.
- Observed
- Published statistics
- Institution-reported
- Estimated
- Modelled
- Forecast
- Scenario
- Expert judgement
- Unknown
Published statistics names a source type, not an endorsement. Missing data is shown as missing, never as zero.
What GCRI pages will and will not say.
- 01
Status in plain terms
Present tense only for what operates now; planned services are described as designed, as recorded in the claims and readiness register.
- 02
No unrecorded claims
No partners, members, offices, counts, fees or results without a record.
- 03
No superlatives
No rankings of institutions, no prestige lists and no promotional language.
- 04
Release follows review
Not publicity deadlines. A planned report is never shown as released.
Questions and answers.
Who is the publisher of a GCRI page?
Can a reviewer block publication?
How are AI-generated drafts handled?
How can I criticize a GCRI publication?
Do GCRI pages use promotional language?
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- GatewayGW-GCRISend it from this pageEvidence, a correction, a case, a method, a review, a translation or profile input. It arrives tagged with this page, so the editor who owns it receives it.
- ZenodoOpen depositDeposit it and submit to the communityPublish your own record on Zenodo with your ORCID iD, then submit it to the Nexus Reports community. Curators review it there; the DOI stays yours.
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Never send personal data, sensitive infrastructure detail or anything you have no right to share. A contribution is reviewed before use; sending it confers no authorship or editorial rights, and sponsorship never buys a finding.
The same subject across the Consortium.
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