Claim LD09-SL-C03 (v1.0)
Before generative AI, as journals moved online (1998–2005), papers cited more recent work, fewer journals and fewer articles, and concentrated their citations on fewer of them; the author argued that online search “may accelerate consensus and narrow the range of findings and ideas built upon”.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (ABSTRACT_ONLY) (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED ABSTRACT”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- Any effect of AI tools; this is a precedent, not evidence about AI
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Evans, “Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship,” Science 321, 2008
- Source type (field 7)
- PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (as printed: “Peer-reviewed journal article”)
- Institutional position
- Independent academic (University of Chicago)
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- MATURE (as printed: “MATURE”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-10-15
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Current version v1.0, resolved through the explicit current pointer CLAIM--LD09-SL-C03.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Evans, “Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship,” Science 321, 2008” → SRC-SL-EVANS-SCIENCE-2008--v1.0 — Evans, “Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship,” Science 321, 2008; class PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (explicit public provenance pin)
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD09-SL-C03 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | Before generative AI, as journals moved online (1998–2005), papers cited more recent work, fewer journals and fewer articles, and concentrated their citations on fewer of them; the author argued that online search “may accelerate consensus and narrow the range of findings and ideas built upon”. | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | ESTIMATE | base_types: ESTIMATE |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | A — Science and scholarship | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | MATURE | states: MATURE |
| 6 | SOURCE | Evans, “Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship,” Science 321, 2008 | source_ids: SRC-SL-EVANS-SCIENCE-2008 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Peer-reviewed journal article | classes: PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Independent academic (University of Chicago) | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | Scholarly citation across science and scholarship, 1945–2005 | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Observational analysis of citation patterns as journal issues became available online | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | 34 million articles | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | Not applicable (online availability of journals, not AI) | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | The same journals before online availability | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | Citations became more recent and concentrated on fewer journals and articles as online availability grew | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | Whether a tool that makes search more efficient narrows what scholars build on | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | Any effect of AI tools; this is a precedent, not evidence about AI | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED ABSTRACT | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · qualifiers: ABSTRACT_ONLY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | Official abstract only; the finding was reportedly disputed at the time (not checked for this version) | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | LLM-assisted search associated with broader reading and citing: LD09-SL-C05 | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | Not checked / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Not recorded | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | LD-09, D3 | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | Re-analysis showing that the narrowing reflected database coverage rather than reading behaviour | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER | state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-10-15 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-09 (LIVING_DEBATE); D3 (DOMAIN)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 63d19e2d227dcc87bbaac1aff642f38881e49597a18f6701f366ce9b90679ac5.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- SocioLens claim — LD09-SL-C03 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-15; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-09 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-09 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 03 — LD09-SL-C03” SHA-256
9643da408bb1e424ee5dc71a45f3406565a3df8f04a8df61526b658f7385971b; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD09-SL-C03--v1.0.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD09-SL-C03 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-09 debate
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD09-SL-C03 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-15); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-09 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-09 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-EVANS-SCIENCE-2008--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 03 — LD09-SL-C03 cites "Evans, “Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship,” Science 321, 2008"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-EVANS-SCIENCE-2008--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Evans, “Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship,” Science 321, 2008".