Step 5 · Report

Turn the audit trail into a manuscript-ready account of your data preparation.

What the report contains

• Chronological operation log — every data-modifying action with timestamp and parameters
• Category distribution — how operations break down (merge, filter, disambiguation, enrichment, …)
• Health summary — the weighted completeness score before/after preparation
• Methodology narrative — an automatically generated paragraph describing the whole preparation pipeline

The methodology narrative

The narrative is restricted to information explicitly contained in the audit log — it can't claim a step you didn't run. A typical excerpt:

On 2026-06-10, a database merging and deduplication process was conducted. A total of 2,148 records from Scopus and 2,010 records from Web of Science were included in the procedure (4,158 records in total). The Smart Merge algorithm identified 414 duplicate records across the datasets. Following deduplication, the final consolidated dataset consisted of 3,744 unique records.

Copy it as-is into your manuscript's data-preparation section, or use it as the factual skeleton for your own wording.

Export formats

The operation report is available as Markdown, plain text or PDF — drop it into your supplementary materials for full transparency.