Create totalArticleScore-standardized and totalArticleScore-nonStandardized

[paulalbert1]

Background

Someone who is maintaining a lab website may want articles that score only with a very high level of evidence whereas a librarian who is troubleshooting ReCiter might want to see all possible articles.

We're going to be mucking about with ReCiter evidence scores for quite some time, so we want to shield users from the change in scores as we optimize the value of the evidence constants.

The way we do this is through transforming raw scores into standardized scores.

Properties

Include these in application.properties:

standardizedScoreMapping:-9999,1  /* totalArticleScore-nonStandardized-excludingFeedbackScore, totalArticleScore-standardized */
standardizedScoreMapping:1,2
standardizedScoreMapping:2,3
standardizedScoreMapping:3,4
standardizedScoreMapping:4,5
standardizedScoreMapping:6,6
standardizedScoreMapping:8,7
standardizedScoreMapping:10,8
standardizedScoreMapping:12,9
standardizedScoreMapping:14,10
totalArticleScore-standardized-default: 7

Variables

• totalArticleScore-nonStandardized - score of individual article
• totalArticleScore-standardized - range of score 1-10; rawIndividualArticleScore can be mapped to a standardizedScore using the lookup table in application.properties (see below)

Workflow

Prerequisite: As described in issue #232, we computed totalArticleScore-nonStandardized.

1. Calculate totalArticleScore-nonStandardized-excludingFeedbackScore.

totalArticleScore-nonStandardized-excludingFeedbackScore = totalArticleScore-nonStandardized - feedbackScore-accepted - feedbackScore-rejected

2. For each individual article, map to a totalArticleScore-standardized.

Here's how:

• Find the highest standardizedScoreMapping where standardizedScoreMapping >= totalArticleScore-standardized.
• Lookup the totalArticleScore-standardized.

Example: an article has totalArticleScore-nonStandardized-excludingFeedbackScore = 8.4. That would map to this row in application.properties, because 8.4 > 8, but < 10:

totalArticleScore-standardized:8,7

Therefore, the totalArticleScore-standardized is 7.