# Recursive Epistemics prior-art programme

**Status:** source-review programme; no novelty claim.

The project uses "Recursive Epistemics / Rekursive Epistemik" as a working project term.
Before any formal novelty claim, a systematic prior-art search must test whether the same
or materially equivalent concept already exists under other names.

Minimum search families:
- meta-research / metascience and research-on-research;
- provenance-aware scientific workflows;
- reproducible computational science and workflow audit;
- research integrity and evidence-status separation;
- human-AI scientific collaboration and AI-assisted authorship;
- reflexive methodology / second-order observation;
- epistemic vigilance, source dependence and circular citation;
- preregistration, registered reports and claim-evidence traceability.

## Current standards anchors

The standards mapping for authorship/accountability must record exact versions and access
dates. The 2026 study-design baseline includes:
- ICMJE Recommendations, January 2026, including AI-use guidance;
- ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022 CRediT;
- ALLEA European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, 2023 Revised Edition;
- current DFG guidance applicable at execution.

These standards are normative/context sources, not empirical support for MHRN technical
claims.

## Deliverable

The review must produce: search strings, databases/sites, dates, inclusion/exclusion
rules, deduplication, screened records, concept matrix, nearest prior art, negative search
limitations and a bounded novelty statement. Until then, novelty status is `open`.