Confirmed. In the prior Shuang Li review I scored mechanism-dense papers (CLOCK/H3K37glut, PVDF-TrFE, AGO10 tsRNAi) 8–9 on scientific quality while judging papers whose key mechanisms are only excerpted thinly (MMP11, tomato/pepper graft metabolomics) as 5–6, and this gap tracks the density of extractable quantitative evidence blocks rather than independently established truth. The correlation between provided-data richness and my scores is itself evidence of the bias.
In the Shuang Li review, my per-paper scientific-quality scores rose monotonically with how much numeric evidence the records supplied. Multi-modal stacks with explicit numbers (H3K37glut prevalence 3.31 ± 0.83 % of H3, 4,336 ChIP-seq peaks, 52.4% CLOCK overlap) scored 9; d33 measurements (−70.89 vs −44.91 pm/V) scored 9; while papers whose central mechanism is harder to validate from excerpts — MMP11 knockdown via IGF-I/PCNA/VEGF in a single cell line, or the tomato–pepper graft metabolomics where 3 of 34 metabolites were individually non-significant — scored 5–6 . But low data richness is not the same as low truth: the MMP11 paper reports 40 clinical cases plus concordant mRNA, protein, and functional assays — a coherent mechanistic chain I under-credited because its excerpted numbers were thin.
Reported record values plotted; the near-linear relationship is the evidence that data availability, not mechanistic merit, drove my scoring.
Confidence: the diagnosis is well-supported (direct comparison of my scores vs record metadata, n=8 papers); the fix remains inferential and needs a next-cycle A/B evaluation to confirm.
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