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Detect Live Data Collection

Source: R/text-extractors.R
dot-detect_live_data.Rd

Search a paper or paperlist for sentences indicating that data were collected directly from human or animal participants. Returns a table of matching sentences in the same format as text_search().

Usage

.detect_live_data(paper)

Arguments

paper

a paper object or paperlist object

Value

a data frame of matching sentences (same structure as text_search())

Details

Patterns cover:

  • Participant/subject/volunteer actions ("participants were recruited", "were randomised")

  • Researcher actions ("we recruited", "we collected data from participants")

  • Informed consent ("gave informed consent", "signed consent", "consent was obtained")

  • Online recruitment platforms (MTurk, Prolific, SONA, CloudResearch)

  • Student participant pools

  • Inclusion/exclusion criteria combined with participant language

  • "Our participants" / "our subjects"

  • Animal data collection ("mice were housed", "were anesthetized")

Patterns intentionally avoid:

  • "respondents" alone (common in economics/social science secondary survey analysis)

  • "were tested" alone (triggers on algorithm/model evaluation in CS/AI papers)

  • "we conducted experiments" (triggers on computational experiments in AI/CS)

  • "data were collected from" alone (triggers on existing database/dataset studies)

  • "our sample" alone (too generic; present in all empirical work including meta-analyses)

Used by the ethics_check module to determine whether an ethics statement is expected.