# Scientific provenance

## Parent benchmark

Protocol preset: **ICMR-PE-SIM-v1.0.1**  
Lock date: 04 September 2026 (IST)  
Master seed: 1729

The Explorer parameter backbone reflects the locked pre-coding simulation specification, including:

- Eight ICMR-IRIS PE indicators and official weights
- Ten synthetic researcher archetypes
- Career-stage productivity structure
- Citation-ecology multipliers
- Routine / Influential / Landmark scientific classes
- Age-dependent citation accumulation
- Clinical and public-health translation pathways
- Independent latent S/C/P/I domains
- Innovation and technology-evaluation pathways
- h-index, g-index, i10-index, m-quotient and normalized-citation comparators
- Pareto-concordance validation concept
- Scientific-only negative control

## PE weights used

| Indicator | PE |
|---|---:|
| Eligible research publication | 1 |
| High scientific impact | 2 |
| Clinical-care impact | 10 |
| Public-health impact | 10 |
| Granted patent | 5 |
| Health technology used in limited settings | 10 |
| Health technology commercialized / used at scale | 20 |
| Evaluation of technology developed by others leading to approval/procurement | 3 |

High scientific impact is treated once when either citations >=100 or, for a paper age <=5 years, JIF >=10.

## Explorer-specific simplification

The static Explorer is intentionally browser-sized. It does not attempt to reproduce the complete frozen Monte Carlo workflow, including 200 independent 6,000-researcher populations, all retained audit artifacts, all stress-test execution pathways, or the exact full benchmark normalization and uncertainty machinery. Interactive output must therefore be labelled exploratory.

The frozen benchmark result is displayed separately and is never overwritten by an interactive run.


## Researcher-type summaries

Explorer v1.2.0 additionally reports results stratified by the generated A1–A10 archetype. For each type, metric concordance is recalculated within that subgroup using the same selected reference construct as the overall run. These subgroup summaries are exploratory diagnostics and are accompanied by subgroup size and comparable-pair counts.