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Counts by direction of finding. These are the same 34 outcome categories the Explorer compares and the Syntheses are written for. A linked row has a published synthesis.

Outcome Positive Negative Mixed Null Total
Other 882 244 117 1097 2424
Governance & Regulation 1010 469 229 135 1875
Organizational Efficiency 977 235 149 90 1462
Technology Adoption Rate 781 299 143 128 1362
Research Productivity 506 155 74 363 1110
Output Quality 555 219 71 70 915
Decision Quality 395 200 95 54 751
Firm Productivity 523 67 101 27 724
AI Safety & Ethics 262 309 75 36 688
Market Structure 195 201 135 30 566
Task Allocation 248 77 96 38 464
Innovation Output 300 34 55 20 411
Skill Acquisition 207 75 65 21 368
Employment Level 138 67 119 24 350
Fiscal & Macroeconomic 156 80 53 33 329
Task Completion Time 211 38 13 16 280
Firm Revenue 183 52 29 5 270
Consumer Welfare 131 77 48 13 269
Inequality Measures 50 141 54 9 254
Worker Satisfaction 104 85 25 13 227
Error Rate 87 112 11 5 215
Automation Exposure 69 69 37 20 198
Wages & Compensation 102 49 31 11 193
Team Performance 115 30 30 11 187
Regulatory Compliance 88 74 17 7 186
Training Effectiveness 109 22 14 21 168
Developer Productivity 116 21 15 8 161
Job Displacement 12 92 26 1 131
Hiring & Recruitment 57 12 9 5 83
Skill Obsolescence 6 59 10 2 77
Social Protection 43 17 8 2 70
Creative Output 35 21 9 4 70
Labor Share of Income 18 23 17 1 59
Worker Turnover 15 16 4 35
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We conduct an empirical study of 86,156 test-file patches from 33,596 agent-authored PRs across 2,807 GitHub repositories produced by five coding agents: OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Devin, Cursor, and Claude Code.
Dataset collection and descriptive statistics reported by the study (counts of patches, PRs, repositories, and agents analyzed).
high null result All Smoke, No Alarm: Oracle Signals in Agent-Authored Test C... dataset composition (counts of patches/PRs/repos/agents)
The production technology is multiplicative and cognitive capital functions as collateral that determines the return to AI adoption.
Analytic model specification and derivation inside the paper (formal mechanism). No empirical data.
high null result Cognitive Debt: AI as Intellectual Leverage and the Dynamics... return to AI adoption (determined by cognitive capital collateral)
The model features two state variables per agent, cognitive capital and cognitive debt.
Formal theoretical model presented in the paper (model specification). No empirical sample; analytic construction.
high null result Cognitive Debt: AI as Intellectual Leverage and the Dynamics... model_structure (cognitive capital and cognitive debt as state variables)
A pilot deployment in Newham's secure environment evaluated operational performance relative to manual workflows.
Paper reports a pilot deployment and an operational evaluation comparing DOMUS to existing manual workflows (method: pilot deployment; specifics such as duration or sample size not stated in provided text).
high null result Optimising Temporary Accommodation Placement Across London w... operational performance relative to manual workflows
The authors evaluate general-purpose vision-language models, specialized GUI agent models, and advanced agentic frameworks at both subtask and end-to-end levels on LabOSBench.
Paper reports an evaluation suite covering multiple model classes and evaluation granularities (subtask and end-to-end); specific model identities and counts are not provided in the excerpt.
high null result LabOSBench: Benchmarking Computer Use Agents for Scientific ... evaluation_coverage (model_types and evaluation_levels)
LabOSBench constructs 96 subtasks across eight instrument simulators, covering workflows from sample loading, alignment, parameter tuning, and data acquisition to result inspection.
Explicit specification in the paper of benchmark breadth: 96 subtasks and 8 simulators including the listed workflow stages.
high null result LabOSBench: Benchmarking Computer Use Agents for Scientific ... benchmark_scope (number_of_subtasks, number_of_simulators)
Scientific instrumentation scenarios require coordinated control over complex interfaces, and feedback-driven parameter adjustment.
Conceptual claim in the paper describing the nature of scientific-instrument operation; not supported by empirical data in the excerpt.
high null result LabOSBench: Benchmarking Computer Use Agents for Scientific ... requirements_of_instrument_control
Current computer-use benchmarks primarily focus on software operation tasks in virtualized systems.
Statement in paper framing the problem; based on literature/field observation rather than reported experiments or data in this excerpt.
In evaluation runs, the evaluated model controls one coffee roaster while the remaining firms are controlled by fixed reference agents.
Experimental setup described in the paper: one roaster is controlled by the model under test; other five firms use fixed reference agents.
high null result CoffeeBench: Benchmarking Long-Horizon LLM Agents in Heterog... agent-control configuration
Each firm in CoffeeBench seeks to maximize cumulative net income through communication and transactions while managing cash, inventory, and pricing.
Specification of agent objectives and state variables in the benchmark design (cumulative net income objective; resources: cash, inventory; decision variables: pricing and transactions).
CoffeeBench simulates an economy of two farmers, two roasters, and two retailers operating autonomously over a 90-day simulation.
Environment description in the paper specifying the number and types of firms and the 90-day simulation horizon.
high null result CoffeeBench: Benchmarking Long-Horizon LLM Agents in Heterog... environment structure (number and types of agents and simulation horizon)
Frontier costs have stayed relatively stable between 2024 and 2026.
Authors' reported trend analysis of frontier model costs across the 2024–2026 period; excerpt lacks numeric cost trend data and sample size.
high null result WorkBench Revisited: Workplace Agents Two Years On trend in frontier model costs over time
Every output is valuable (in H), trivial (in F \ H), or a hallucination (not in F).
Definition/assumption in the paper's formal model classifying outputs into three mutually exclusive categories relative to the formal language F and the valuable language H.
high null result Flood and Harvest: The Provable Necessity of Trivia for Gene... categorization of generated outputs
The empirical analysis used archival microdata from 770 large Spanish firms and employed staged OLS regression models.
Statement of data source and method in the paper's abstract.
high null result Beyond AI Adoption: An Empirical Study on the Antecedents an... methodological description (data and analytical approach)
The complementarity between AI deployment depth and breadth offers a configurational explanation for the AI productivity paradox.
Theoretical interpretation plus empirical finding of a positive interaction between depth and breadth in staged OLS analyses of archival microdata from 770 large Spanish firms.
high null result Beyond AI Adoption: An Empirical Study on the Antecedents an... explanation for AI productivity paradox (interpretive/theoretical outcome)
AI capability can be conceptualized as two-dimensional: AI deployment depth (technological variety of AI implementations) and AI deployment breadth (organizational scope of AI diffusion).
Theoretical framing drawing on Resource-Based Theory and organizational search theory; conceptual argument presented in the paper.
high null result Beyond AI Adoption: An Empirical Study on the Antecedents an... conceptualization: AI deployment depth and breadth
Those preliminary experiments do not establish behavior preservation, scaling economics, or verified-change cost.
Authors' explicit limitation statement following the preliminary QLoRA experiments.
high null result No Accidental Software Agent First Canonical Code for Human ... establishment of behavior preservation / scaling economics / verified-change cos...
The review focuses on three core dimensions of impact: employee attitudes (job satisfaction, motivation, adaptability), workplace behaviours (performance, creativity, technology adoption), and organisational dynamics (leadership, trust, team cohesion).
Stated scope and focus areas in the abstract describing the review's analytical framework.
high null result Emotional AI in the Workplace: Systematic Review of Effects ... scope of outcomes assessed (attitudes, behaviours, organisational dynamics)
The study contributes a structured framework that clarifies the role of emotional AI in organisational contexts and outlines actionable, scalable strategies for real-world application.
Authors claim to have developed and presented a framework and strategies as part of the review paper (a descriptive/conceptual contribution rather than empirical evidence).
high null result Emotional AI in the Workplace: Systematic Review of Effects ... framework and recommended strategies (conceptual contribution)
The study identifies key patterns, methodological trends, and underexplored areas in research on emotional AI systems in organisational contexts.
Authors report findings of their comparative analysis of the state-of-the-art literature (exact patterns/trends and counts are detailed in the full review).
high null result Emotional AI in the Workplace: Systematic Review of Effects ... research patterns and methodological trends
This study follows the PRISMA framework to conduct a systematic evaluation and comparative analysis of the state-of-the-art literature on emotional AI in organisations.
Statement of methods in the abstract that the review used PRISMA; implies structured search, screening, and selection procedures described in the full paper.
high null result Emotional AI in the Workplace: Systematic Review of Effects ... methodological approach (use of PRISMA for systematic review)
The literature on AI-powered emotional intelligence systems is fragmented and insufficiently synthesised.
Authors' assessment based on a systematic literature review conducted following the PRISMA framework (details of databases, search terms, and included studies reported in the paper); exact number of studies not stated in the abstract.
high null result Emotional AI in the Workplace: Systematic Review of Effects ... state of the literature (comprehensiveness / synthesis)
The paper derives tight conditions that determine whether the economy is partially versus fully automated in the long run.
Analytical characterization in the model: derivation of necessary and sufficient (tight) conditions separating long-run partial automation from full automation (mathematical proofs within the paper).
high null result Data-Driven Automation long-run automation regime (partial vs full)
Data accumulates endogenously as a byproduct of economic activity.
Model assumption and mechanism in the theoretical dynamic model: data generation is modeled as an endogenous outcome of agents' economic activity (analytical model specification).
high null result Data-Driven Automation endogenous data accumulation
Data is heterogeneous and task-specific.
Model assumption stated in the paper's setup: the model is built with data that varies across tasks and is task-specific (analytical model specification).
high null result Data-Driven Automation data heterogeneity (task-specificity)
Density-normalized outcomes (e.g., smells per LOC) can mislead when treatment affects system size; raw counts and explicit decomposition are required for causal mining studies of AI tool adoption.
Interpretation and methodological recommendation derived from the observed pattern (unchanged smell counts + increased LOC leading to lower density) in the paper's empirical results.
high null result Mining Architectural Quality Under Agentic AI Adoption: A Ca... validity of density-normalized metrics (e.g., smells/LOC) under treatment that c...
Per-type estimates and robustness checks (wild cluster bootstrap, Lee bounds, stale-observation sensitivity) corroborate the main pattern; pre-trends are flat (Wald p = 0.90), consistent with the parallel trends assumption.
Placebo and robustness analyses reported in the paper (per-type breakdowns and multiple sensitivity checks) applied to the 151-repository panel; pre-trend test result reported as Wald p = 0.90.
high null result Mining Architectural Quality Under Agentic AI Adoption: A Ca... pre-treatment trends and robustness of estimated effects
Total architectural smell counts are essentially unchanged after adoption (+1.1%, p = 0.82).
Estimated treatment effect from staggered DiD / Borusyak imputation on total smell counts using the 151-repository panel (74 treated, 77 controls).
high null result Mining Architectural Quality Under Agentic AI Adoption: A Ca... total architectural smell counts
The causal effect of adoption on architectural smell density (ASD) was estimated using a staggered difference-in-differences design and the Borusyak imputation estimator.
Methodological claim describing the causal identification and estimation strategy applied to the 151-repository panel.
high null result Mining Architectural Quality Under Agentic AI Adoption: A Ca... architectural smell density (ASD)
We mined 151 open-source Java repositories, 74 with detectable agentic AI adoption (identified via configuration files and Co-Authored-By commit trailers) and 77 propensity-matched controls, across a 13-month per-repository window yielding 1,811 monthly Arcan snapshots.
Descriptive dataset and methods statement in paper: 151 repositories (74 treated, 77 matched controls), 13-month windows, producing 1,811 monthly Arcan snapshots.
high null result Mining Architectural Quality Under Agentic AI Adoption: A Ca... dataset composition (number of repositories, treated vs control, snapshots)
Causal evidence on the effect of AI coding tool adoption on software architecture is scarce; prior causal work has focused on code-level outcomes (complexity, static analysis warnings) and whether such degradation propagates to architecture-level outcomes remains unknown.
Literature/background statement in abstract asserting gaps in prior work; not an empirical result from this paper's dataset.
high null result Mining Architectural Quality Under Agentic AI Adoption: A Ca... state of the literature regarding causal evidence on architecture-level effects
The superior zero-shot forecasting accuracy of foundation models does not inherently translate into better decision utility for resource consolidation.
Empirical analysis in the paper mapping forecasting outputs to downstream consolidation decisions and utility metrics, showing lack of improvement in decision utility despite better forecast accuracy.
high null result CloudCons: A Comprehensive End-to-End Benchmark for Cloud Re... decision utility in resource consolidation (trade-off between resource efficienc...
We analyze 15,549 agentic PRs from 148 projects in the AIDev dataset.
Descriptive statement of dataset and sample used in the study (paper reports analysis of 15,549 agentic PRs from 148 projects).
high null result Toward Instructions-as-Code: Understanding the Impact of Ins... number of agentic pull requests and projects analyzed
From 2024 to 2026, more than 130 articles were submitted to this Special Issue (SI), and only 18 papers were accepted after rigorous peer review.
Editorial report in the paper describing CFP submissions and acceptance counts.
high null result Guest editorial: Digital age wisdom in Chinese management: a... number of submissions and acceptances for the SI
We conduct a qualitative study on a representative sample of 306 non-merged pull requests created or co-authored by the agents mentioned earlier, followed by a quantitative analysis of the reasons for rejection.
Authors' reported methods: qualitative study of a sample of 306 non-merged PRs and subsequent quantitative analysis.
high null result Understanding the Rejection of Fixes Generated by Agentic Pu... qualitative and quantitative characterization of non-merged PRs
Professional radiologists analyzed chest X-rays with access to state-of-the-art machine learning predictions in this replication setting.
Description of the experimental/contextual setting in the paper: professional radiologists using ML predictions on chest X-rays drawn from Collab-CXR.
high null result Revisiting the ABCs of Working with AI: A Replication with R... task context — radiology readings with ML assistance
The replication uses radiologist assessments from repeated-case designs, which include 68 radiologists and 11,420 paired radiologist–patient–pathology observations.
Direct reporting of study sample and design in the paper (repeated-case design; counts of radiologists and paired observations).
high null result Revisiting the ABCs of Working with AI: A Replication with R... sample composition (number of radiologists and paired observations)
This note leverages the public Collab-CXR data repository described by Moehring et al. (2025) and first analyzed for human-AI collaboration by Agarwal et al. (2023).
Explicit statement in the paper identifying the data source and prior analyses (references provided).
high null result Revisiting the ABCs of Working with AI: A Replication with R... dataset used for replication (Collab-CXR)
In a production switchback experiment, the offline-trained policy reduces courier-side time costs without degrading customer-facing delivery quality.
Empirical claim supported by production switchback experiment described in the paper; asserts no degradation in customer-facing delivery quality concurrent with courier-side time improvements (no numerical metrics or sample sizes provided in excerpt).
high null result Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning from Delayed Marketplace ... customer-facing delivery quality
The study uses a qualitative, mixed-methods design combining a systematic literature review, secondary evidence from an industry MRO digital survey, five semi-structured expert interviews, and two technical case studies (neural networks for aircraft retirement and an AI-based digital twin for a Power Electronics Cooling System).
Methods description provided in the paper (explicit counts: 5 interviews, 2 case studies); method = author-reported study design.
high null result Aviation 4.0: the impacts of digital transformation on the a... study design and methods employed
After screening, 35 studies were included in the thematic synthesis and supplemented by official regulatory and industry documents.
Review screening result reported in the paper: number of included studies = 35; supplementation by regulatory and industry documents stated.
high null result Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... number of included studies and supplementary documents
A structured search protocol was designed for Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, IEEE Xplore, and Google Scholar covering January 2016 to May 2026, English-language records only.
Methods statement in the review describing the databases, date range, and language restriction used for the systematic search.
high null result Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... search protocol (databases, date range, language)
The implementation literature on AI for pharmacy inventory and pharmaceutical supply chains remains dispersed across pharmacy operations, operations research, health informatics, and supply chain analytics.
The review's thematic synthesis of the searched literature (review methods described below) identified studies across these disciplinary areas.
high null result Artificial Intelligence-Driven Optimization in Pharmacy Inve... disciplinary distribution of implementation literature
Devil's Advocate (DA) is an AI assistant that critiques the human's initial ideas, whereas Dialectical Inquiry (DI) provides alternatives and synthesizes a resolution.
Conceptual/definitional claim in the paper describing the operationalization of DA and DI for the experiments.
high null result Shaping The Tool Or Shaping The Mind: An Investigation Of Du... operational definition of AI-supported conflict techniques
This research empirically compares DA and DI in AI contexts.
Paper reports experimental comparison between AI behaviors implementing Devil's Advocate (DA) and Dialectical Inquiry (DI) across the studies.
high null result Shaping The Tool Or Shaping The Mind: An Investigation Of Du... comparative effects of DA vs DI on SDM outcomes
Both studies examine benefit (information elaboration) and cost (cognitive load) pathways when AI supports SDM.
Paper explicitly frames both studies to measure information elaboration as a benefit pathway and cognitive load as a cost pathway; stated measurement plan in methods.
high null result Shaping The Tool Or Shaping The Mind: An Investigation Of Du... information elaboration and cognitive load
Study 2 tests mind-shaping interventions through user strategy training.
Study design described in the paper: a second experiment (Study 2) manipulating user strategy training (mind-shaping) to evaluate effects on SDM processes and outcomes.
high null result Shaping The Tool Or Shaping The Mind: An Investigation Of Du... effects of user strategy training on information elaboration and cognitive load
Study 1 tests tool-shaping interventions by comparing three AI bot prototype conditions (Information-only, DA, DI) against a control treatment.
Study design described in the paper: randomized/controlled experiment (Study 1) with four conditions (three AI prototype conditions plus control).
high null result Shaping The Tool Or Shaping The Mind: An Investigation Of Du... effects of AI prototype conditions on information elaboration and cognitive load
The 'do no harm' property is confirmed empirically.
Abstract states empirical confirmation in simulations and applications; specifics (e.g., datasets, sample sizes) not included in abstract.
high null result AI-Assisted Variance Reduction in Randomized Experiments empirical verification that adjusted estimator does not worsen performance when ...
Including AI predictions as covariates has a 'do no harm' property: the adjusted estimator reverts to the unadjusted difference in means when predictions are uninformative.
Stated theoretical property in the paper and described as empirically confirmed in simulations and applications (per abstract).
high null result AI-Assisted Variance Reduction in Randomized Experiments bias/consistency and non-worsening of estimator when predictions uninformative