Glossary
Terms, defined plainly.
The vocabulary of source-grounded research communication.
- Research artifact
- An interactive, source-grounded, author-reviewable digital object generated from a paper — an interpretive layer around the original, not a replacement for it.
- Source grounding
- The practice of keeping every important claim traceable to a paper section, figure, table, dataset, method, or citation.
- Claim map
- A structured layer that connects each claim to its evidence, source section, confidence label, and author approval status.
- Evidence trail
- The chain of figures, tables, methods, and citations that support a given claim.
- Audience paths
- Different reading modes — public, journalist, student, funder, practitioner, expert — generated from one verified source.
- What this does not mean
- A signature OpenProof section that states the conclusions a study does not support, to prevent misinterpretation.
- Confidence label
- A short tag — directly supported, supported with caveats, interpretive, background, speculative, or needs author review — describing how well-supported a claim is.
- Author review
- The workflow by which researchers review, edit, approve, and lock the public-facing language before publishing.
- PR kit
- A newsroom-ready briefing including a media summary, headlines, key facts, labeled author quotes, a journalist FAQ, and caveats.
- Data room
- A structured page surfacing data availability, code, licenses, formats, and reproduction instructions.