ReportsIJRG

International Journal of Global Risks and Governance

Publisher of record: GCRI for the Nexus Consortium
Editor: Saeed Valadbaygi, Chief Steward and Managing Editor, GCRI
Licence: CC BY 4.0, open access
Report series: 17
Networks: 7

Draft, not yet released. In stewardship review. Not indexed until the first approved release.

Index Measurement · Start here

Start here: how this desk of Reports works

Abstract. Reports is the Consortium’s quarterly publication. The Index desk reports what The Global Risks Index (NXS-GRX) measures.

For: data providers, statisticians and indicator authors
Status: Draft, not yet released

01What Reports is

Reports is the Consortium’s quarterly publication. The Index desk reports what NXS-GRX measures. If you supply a dataset or maintain an indicator, this is where a result, a method change or a gap in coverage is published with its source.

Atlas of the Index Measurement desk: its mandate, the series it leads, the eight chapters of its edition, what to send here and its Zenodo community. The sections below give the same facts as text. — The Index Measurement desk atlas, with its facts written out below.

02This desk: Measurement

The Index desk reports results by country and ADM level, data releases, method changes, coverage and gaps. No index value is published until an edition is released from a governed evidence cut.

Mandate: Measurement: the index results by country and ADM level, the data releases they come from, method changes, coverage and the gaps in the data. No index value is published until an edition is released from a governed evidence cut.

Series this desk leads:

Country Quarterly

03The six desks

Measurement is one of six desks, and it deposits to its own Zenodo community under the flagship.

Diagram of the six desks and the flagship Zenodo community nexusreports. The table below lists the desks.

The six desks
Desk	Edition	Zenodo community
GCRI	Systems Evidence	nexusreports-gcri
GRF	Public Deliberation	nexusreports-grf
GRA	Capital Readiness	nexusreports-gra
NXS	Standards Progress	nexusreports-nxs
RA	Capability	nexusreports-ra
GRX	Measurement	nexusreports-grx

04The edition in eight chapters, in this desk’s terms

The chapters run from what is measured to the method and release notes that let another team reproduce a result.

The eight chapters of the Measurement edition
Chapter	Title	What it covers
1	What is measured	The indicators, hazards and indices in scope, with their definitions and sources.
2	Results	The index results of the edition, each with its scale, interval, class and source; empty is not zero.
3	Results by system and ADM level	Results by system and by administrative level, from the country (ADM0) to ADM1 and ADM2 where boundaries are licensed.
4	Coverage and data gaps	Where data is missing, dated or withheld, by country, ADM level and indicator.
5	Sensitivity	How results move when weights, sources or methods change under stated assumptions.
6	Readings from the other desks	Readings from the other desks: cross-references to their editions for the same scope, not copies of them.
7	Data agenda	The sources, releases and method changes the next cycle takes up.
8	Method and release notes	The method of the edition, the data releases it uses and every change since the last release.

05How to contribute

Send a dataset with its release and licence, an indicator definition, or a correction to a value. Name the indicator code, the country and the ADM level.

This desk takes:

A dataset or an indicator, with its release, licence and coverage
A correction to an index value, with the source that supports it
A source the Index does not yet use, with its licence
Evidence of a coverage gap, by country or ADM level

The gateway page of the Index Measurement desk gives the route.

06The editorial workflow

A correction is a submission like any other. It is screened, reviewed against its source and decided with a recorded reason.

Diagram of the editorial workflow in six steps: submit, screen, review, decide, accept, publish, with a revision branch and a decline or appeal branch. The list below gives every step.

The editorial workflow
Step	What happens
1. Submit	Contributor declarations and licence terms are signed first.
2. Screen	Editors check scope, completeness and licensing.
3. Review	Peer review runs under the model declared at submission. Authors may revise, then the work returns to review.
4. Decide	Named editors decide and record their reasons. Declined work can be appealed through a separate route.
5. Accept	The decision is recorded and the work moves to production.
6. Publish	A named editor publishes. The DOI is issued.

07The sixteen-gate quarterly cycle

Data releases rarely match the calendar. A release that arrives after the evidence close enters the following cycle.

Diagram of the sixteen gates of a quarterly cycle, from the call opening to the corrections window closing. The list below gives every gate.

The sixteen gates of a quarterly cycle
Order	Gate	Meaning
1	call_open	The call opens.
2	call_close	The call closes.
3	submission_deadline	Last moment to submit into this cycle. Later submissions roll to the next cycle.
4	triage_close	Intake triage must be finished.
5	review_open	The review window opens.
6	reviewer_reminder	First reminder to reviewers.
7	review_close	Reviews are due. Overdue reviews escalate and are reassigned.
8	decision_date	The editorial decision is due.
9	revision_close	The revision window ends.
10	copyedit_freeze	Copyedit and data-check freeze.
11	evidence_close	Evidence close.
12	production_close	Production ends.
13	release_approval	The named approver signs the release.
14	release	Release date. It is the anchor of the cycle.
15	deposit_approval	Zenodo deposit approval. The deposit stays a draft until then.
16	corrections_close	The corrections window ends.

08Release control

The data check and the licence rule carry most weight here. A source whose licence status is under legal review is not used until the review clears it.

Diagram of release control: seven checks must pass, the named approver signs, six artefacts are fixed with checksums, the Zenodo deposit stays a draft, then the record is published with a DOI.

09Open licensing

Index results carry the licence of their sources. Data the desk may share is released under CC0 1.0.

Licence rules

Text, figures and maps: CC BY 4.0 (SPDX: CC-BY-4.0).
Data: CC0 1.0 (SPDX: CC0-1.0).
Code: an OSI-approved licence.
Media: CC BY 4.0 or CC0 1.0.
No NC, ND or SA licence on our own outputs. No paywall, no embargo on text, no fees.

Shared text. It is the same on every Reports site by design.

10Zenodo community and DOIs

Index records go to the measurement community on Zenodo. It exists and is curated by the Index desk; it holds no records yet.

This desk’s community: zenodo.org/communities/nexusreports-grx

Flagship community: nexusreports. It exists and holds records today.
Every record carries a DOI and a full version history. A correction becomes a new version and keeps the concept DOI.

Shared text. It is the same on every Reports site by design.

11The open science stack, with its honest status

Harvesting matters most to this audience. OAI-PMH and RO-Crate are built. Crossref is an export only.

Diagram of the open science stack with the status of each integration. The table below gives every status.

The open science stack and its status
Integration	What it does	Status
Zenodo	DOIs, deposits and versions	Built
ORCID	Contributor identity and review credit	Built
ROR	Institution identifiers	Needs the id
COAR Notify	Inbox for peer review services	Built
OAI-PMH	A harvesting endpoint	Built
JATS XML	Journal article markup	Built
RO-Crate	Research object packaging	Built
Crossref	An export, not in use	Export only

Cite

Reports, Index Measurement, start here [Draft under review]. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) for the Nexus Consortium.

Review copy. The DOI is issued at deposit. Text under CC BY 4.0.

CC BY 4.0 Free to read. Text and figures: CC BY 4.0. Data: CC0 1.0. Authors keep copyright. Published by GCRI Canada.

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