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This page sets out how Nexus Reports, published by The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), takes a report from candidate to release: the review each edition passes, the standard its sources must meet and how versions and corrections are controlled. Every series follows this process, and each states any additional requirements in its own method. A report candidate is not a released publication. The current service level is R0: information and enquiries.
Methods and publication process · Annual synthesis · Edition 4
| Annual synthesis | Global | Data check | 71 | W24 |
| Country profile 7 | Country | Peer review | 96 | W30 |
| Water outlook | Sectoral | Drafting | 31 | W29 |
| Methods note 4 | Methods | Released | 100 | done |
Nexus Reports · Series production deskSeries production desk, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.
The Nexus Reports method takes a report from candidate to release: the review each edition passes, the standard its sources must meet and how versions and corrections are controlled. Every series follows it and states any added requirements, and a report candidate is never presented as a released publication.
Where people and networks concentrate, the exposure through which shocks travel between systems, shown for Brazil as an example geography for this subject.
Specialists in the subject test the reasoning, the methods and whether the conclusions follow from the evidence.
Data, code and models behind figures are checked, and reproduced where the edition relies on them.
Clarity, accessibility, sourcing, disclosures and consistency with the series method.
Each series states in its method which reviews an edition must pass. Dissent and adverse findings from review are preserved, not removed.
Sources are registered with their owner, licence, authority and known limits before they are used. Where sources disagree, the disagreement is shown rather than resolved by choosing the convenient one. Each claim carries an evidence label: Observed, Officially reported, Institution-reported, Estimated, Modelled, Forecast, Scenario, Expert judgement and Unknown. Original source authority is retained, and Nexus estimates stay labelled as estimates. Lineage is kept as described on Nexus Registry provenance.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Peer review | Evaluation of a work by independent experts in the field before publication. |
| Version of record | The fixed version of a work that a publisher formally declares published; later changes appear as dated corrections or new versions, never as silent edits, in the sense NISO's journal article versions recommendation uses. |
| Literature cut-off | The date after which new studies are not assessed in a report. |
| Correction | A published notice that amends an error in a work whose main findings stand. |
Each edition has a permanent identifier and a version number.
An error is corrected in a new version, with what changed, why and who reviewed it.
Earlier versions remain available, marked as superseded.
Corrections are listed on Nexus Reports corrections and recorded in the publication record.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.