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Understand the research. Read the reasoning.
From contribution types to individual assessments: find an explanation for the result in front of you.
Start here
Find your way through a research guide.
- How to read a research guide
Read the problem, mechanism, assessment, and limits together.
- The assessment process
Follow the path from claims to assessments and the total score.
Claims & classification
Understand what a paper contributes.
- Claims and their boundaries
Identify the claim and the conditions it depends on.
- Primary contribution types
Ten types describe the nature of the main deliverable.
- Contribution tags
Describe contribution content and how it works.
Assessment methods
Each assessment answers a different question.
- Choosing the evaluation target
Fix the target, its prerequisites, and its scope first.
- Direction value
How valuable would achieving this target be?
- Direction progress
Assuming its claims hold, how far does the paper advance the target?
- Argument strength
Where are the remaining gaps in support for the actual claim?
- Structural increment and nearest neighbors
What structural capability remains beyond existing work?
- Improvement strength
How much do results improve under comparable conditions?
- Knowledge compression
What cognitive burden is removed while preserving explanatory power?
Scores & sources
Interpret numbers, uncertainty, and versions.
- How the total score is calculated
Distinguish grades from points, and compare scores carefully.
- Uncertainty, missing results, and execution
Zero, uncertainty, and failure mean different things.
- Evaluation time and historical papers
Distinguish present-day assessment from the publication-time context.
- Rule versions, prompts, and sources
Trace materials, assessments, guide revisions, and their rules.