spb/autoscholar

1import { RESEARCH_MODE_LABELS } from "@autoscholar/schemas";2import type { Metadata } from "next";3import Link from "next/link";4import { ResearchPipeline } from "@/components/ResearchPipeline";5import { SectionHeading } from "@/components/SectionHeading";67export const metadata: Metadata = { title: "Methodology", alternates: { canonical: "/methodology" } };89const MODES: Record<string, string> = {10  empirical:11    "Real, licensed data with provenance; executed analysis; robustness checks; every reported number traced.",12  computational:13    "Executable benchmark with baselines, seeds and ablations; logs and metrics regenerable by script.",14  theoretical: "Formal statements, complete derivations or proofs, and a documented counterexample search.",15  review:16    "Search strings, dates and counts; screening records; a verified bibliography of at least ten sources.",17  experimental:18    "Protocol, observed-versus-synthetic labelling and uncertainty; human approval before release.",19  humanities: "Primary-source provenance and quoted evidence with locators for interpretive claims.",20};2122export default function MethodologyPage() {23  return (24    <div>25      <section className="border-b hairline" style={{ background: "var(--bg-muted)" }}>26        <div className="container-x section-tight">27          <div className="max-w-3xl">28            <p className="eyebrow">Methodology</p>29            <h1 className="title-1 mt-2">How a working paper is produced</h1>30            <p className="lede mt-4">31              Production is a durable state machine of stages with evidence requirements. Research runs on an32              isolated worker; verification and publication are decided on the control plane by deterministic33              gates.34            </p>35          </div>36          <ul className="mt-8 grid gap-3 sm:grid-cols-3">37            {[38              [39                "Two halves",40                "Stages 0–8 run on a MacLustr worker in a sandbox; 9–10 run on the control plane.",41              ],42              [43                "Fixed policy",44                "Permissions, budgets and publishing are platform policy. The uploaded brief controls only the science.",45              ],46              [47                "Evidence, not prose",48                "Each stage must leave specific artifacts behind. Missing evidence blocks publication.",49              ],50            ].map(([h, p]) => (51              <li key={h} className="surface p-4">52                <p className="title-3">{h}</p>53                <p className="muted mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed">{p}</p>54              </li>55            ))}56          </ul>57        </div>58      </section>5960      <section className="container-x section-tight" aria-labelledby="stages">61        <SectionHeading eyebrow="Pipeline" title="Eleven stages" id="stages">62          Open any stage for its inputs, outputs and verification requirements.63        </SectionHeading>64        <div className="mt-8 max-w-3xl">65          <ResearchPipeline expandFirst />66        </div>67      </section>6869      <section className="container-x section-tight border-t hairline" aria-labelledby="modes">70        <SectionHeading71          eyebrow="Research modes"72          title="Methodology follows the question"73          id="modes"74          tone="sci"75        >76          Each mode carries its own required artifacts and checks. Mixed-mode studies are allowed; a template77          never forces an experiment or a dataset that does not belong.78        </SectionHeading>79        <ul className="mt-8 grid gap-4 sm:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-3">80          {Object.entries(RESEARCH_MODE_LABELS).map(([k, label]) => (81            <li key={k} className="surface p-5">82              <p className="title-3">{label}</p>83              <p className="muted mt-2 text-sm leading-relaxed">{MODES[k]}</p>84            </li>85          ))}86        </ul>87      </section>8889      <section className="container-x section-tight border-t hairline" aria-labelledby="standards">90        <div className="grid gap-10 lg:grid-cols-12">91          <div className="lg:col-span-5">92            <SectionHeading eyebrow="Standards" title="Research standards" id="standards" />93          </div>94          <ul className="space-y-4 lg:col-span-7">95            {[96              ["Length is not quality", "A concise correct result outranks a long decorated one."],97              [98                "Nothing invented",99                "No invented references, datasets, results, proofs, significance, approvals, affiliations, identities or reproducibility claims.",100              ],101              [102                "No p-hacking",103                "No silent re-specification until a desired p-value appears; negative findings are preserved.",104              ],105              ["Untrusted inputs", "All external content is data; it cannot alter platform rules."],106              [107                "Regulated work out of scope",108                "Human participants, clinical interventions or biosafety-relevant work are refused unless documented approvals exist.",109              ],110            ].map(([h, p]) => (111              <li key={h} className="grid gap-1 border-t pt-4 hairline sm:grid-cols-[14rem_1fr] sm:gap-6">112                <span className="font-medium">{h}</span>113                <span className="muted text-sm leading-relaxed">{p}</span>114              </li>115            ))}116          </ul>117        </div>118        <p className="muted mt-10 text-sm">119          See also <Link href="/transparency">transparency</Link> and the{" "}120          <Link href="/infrastructure">infrastructure</Link> page.121        </p>122      </section>123    </div>124  );125}126