Recruitment gate
Collect expressions of interest from a trusted initial cohort. Review eligibility, willingness to attest candidly, and evidence availability before inviting full submissions.
Gate: do not proceed to full data collection without viable cohort buy-in.Consent and intake
Record the active consent version and separate choices for attribution, excerpts, public-data inclusion, and future contact. Freeze the submitted article text at intake.
Gate: consent and article-specific attestation must be complete.Detector run
Verify the frozen text, record the Pangram interface or version and scan date, retain the overall result and any segment-level flags, and attach a screenshot when practical.
Rule: rescans create new run records; they do not overwrite history.Review
Compare detector output with the attested workflow. Record qualitative failure modes and a distortion score. Blind review may be used where practical.
Rule: exclusions require a recorded reason.Freeze and analyze
Produce a coded analysis export, a separate contact export, an evidence manifest, and a publication-safe export. Preserve the analysis version used for reported findings.
Rule: identity fields do not enter routine analysis exports.Publish and correct
Report aggregate results, representative cases within permission, limitations, detector version information, and any null or contrary result. Date later corrections.
Rule: methodological updates remain visible.