Sample scenario
Run and policy limits
Every number here describes the sources that were searched. It does not describe the whole literature.
Run state
Every configured source answered and the run stayed inside the pilot request, page, and duration limits. Counts below reflect the sources searched, not the whole literature.
Progress
Sample scenario100%
Share of planned work finished.
Provider requests
Sample scenario18
Limit 25.
Cursor pages
Sample scenario4
Pages read per target before the run stops.
Cache
Sample scenariowarm
Cache use for this run.
- Evidence freeze
- Provider results frozen before deterministic processing.
- What is authoritative
- Counts, reconciliation, evidence, and review state are authoritative.
Source outcomes
A source that searched and found nothing is not the same as a source that was never configured or did not answer. Only a clean search can support a coverage statement.
| Source | Searched | Records | Outcome | Can support a coverage claim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlexStopped at the 5 cursor-page per-target limit. | Yes | 412 | truncated | No |
| DimensionsCompleted inside the configured limits. | Yes | 268 | answered | Yes |
| Legacy reference workbookHistorical reference only. Never overwrites extracted evidence. | Yes | 96 | answered | No |
| Europe PMCNot configured in this workspace. Absence here is not literature absence. | No | n/a | not configured | No |
| CrossrefSearched successfully and returned zero records. This is different from a failure. | Yes | 0 | zero records | Yes |
Coverage limitation
3 of 5 sources did not complete a clean search: OpenAlex (truncated), Legacy reference workbook (answered), Europe PMC (not configured). Coverage statements that depend on these sources stay unclaimable.
Absence of a record is a limit of the sources searched, not evidence of absence.
Pilot policy limits
Fixed limits for the development pilot. They are shown so a reader can judge how complete a run could have been.
- Provider
- OpenAlex only
- Transport
- HTTPS to api.openalex.org:443
- Redirects
- Refused
- Page size
- per_page <= 100
- Cursor pages per target
- 5
- Provider requests per run
- 25
- Citing records per run
- 1,000
- Response size
- 2 MiB
- Request attempt timeout
- 20 s
- Total analysis duration
- 60 s
- Attempts per request
- 4
- Backoff cap
- 2 s
- Minimum request interval
- 1 s
- Persistent cache maximum age
- 24 h