How we work

What each article is

Each article is built from a structured record of one paper: the role AI played, what it was used for, the steps of the work, how the results were checked, and whether the code, data and trained models are available. The record is extracted from the paper's full text, including its methods, and then checked by a person before it is published.

What "in the paper" means

Values marked in the paper come with a short quotation — at most 25 words, copied exactly — showing where the paper describes that part of the work. A quotation shows where, not every value beside it: one passage locates a step, and the step's other details are our reading of that passage. Values marked our reading were worked out from context rather than stated. Every quotation is checked automatically against the paper's text before an article can be saved.

What "not reported" means

When a paper does not say something — whether its code is available, what hardware it used, how many things were tested — the article says so rather than guessing. Absence is information: it tells you what a reader of the paper cannot find out.

The introductions

Each article may open with a plain-language introduction for readers outside the field. It is written by AIxSci from the checked record, not from the paper, and is labelled as ours. It adds background, never claims about the research that the record does not hold.

Which papers are included

The first 200 articles cover three fields — structural biology and protein science, materials and computational chemistry, and astronomy — from 2022 onwards. They are open-access papers under a Creative Commons Attribution licence, drawn at random from every eligible paper rather than chosen for being notable, so that what the collection shows is typical of the field. Papers whose methods could not be found were left out: methods are what a record is built from.

Editorial and review board

Hannah Isles — Editor and member of the Review Board.

Corrections

Records are versioned and never silently changed. If an article is wrong, tell us and the correction is published as a new version, with the earlier one kept. Corrections: [email protected].