A Plea for Neutral Comparison Studies in Computational Sciences
Figure 4
The top panel shows the global results for all papers relevant to the respective question (either all 55 papers satisfying Condition 3 or the 43 papers on new methods), while the bottom panel shows the results stratified by research field (bioinformatics: BI, computational statistics: CS and machine learning: ML). (A) and (E): Are there clear winner(s)?; (B) and (F): Are the winner(s) mentioned in the abstract?; (C) and (G): Which type of winner(s) (W1, W2, or W3) is identified? (for the 43 papers on new methods only); (D) and (H): Is the new method presented in several variants? (for the 43 paper on new methods only).