# Research paper planning worksheet

Original editorial worksheet from the Computational Pathology Reading Roadmap.
This is not an official conference form and does not guarantee acceptance.
Use the author guide and unmodified template for the exact venue/year/track.

## Submission identity
- Conference / year / track:
- Stage (initial / discussion / camera-ready):
- Official author-guide URL and checked date:
- Official template revision:
- Confirmed main-text limit and exclusions:
- Unresolved policy questions:

## One-sentence contribution
In [defined setting], changing [mechanism/assumption] produces [measured/proved
effect], compared with [appropriate alternative], under [constraints].

## Closest prior work
- What does it already establish?
- Which assumption, mechanism, evidence or resource changes here?
- Is that change genuinely new, and how was the literature checked?

## Claim ledger (repeat per major claim)
- ID and exact proposition:
- Supporting experiment / theorem / artifact:
- Comparison contract (data, capacity, supervision, tuning, compute):
- Strongest alternative explanation:
- Discriminating test:
- Uncertainty / assumptions:
- Failure or scope boundary:
- Manuscript and appendix locations:
- Status: supported / partly supported / contradicted / untested

## Method explanation
- Inputs and information access:
- Training-only components:
- Novel computation / argument:
- Objective and defined symbols:
- Inference outputs and retained costs:
- Exact algorithm vs practical approximation:

## Visual plan (repeat per figure/table)
- Reader's question:
- What the visual demonstrates:
- Source experiment / derivation:
- Axes, units, legend and uncertainty:
- Caption's setting and supported takeaway:
- What it does NOT demonstrate:
- Normal-size and grayscale readability checked:

## Reproducibility map
- Data provenance, access and split construction:
- Code revision and environment:
- Commands/configurations mapped to results:
- Seeds, tuning protocol and hardware:
- Proof locations and dependencies:
- Restricted artifacts and lawful verification alternatives:

## Ethics and disclosure
- Approvals or documented exemption:
- Privacy, consent, license and provenance checks:
- Potential harms, affected groups and mitigations:
- Funding / conflicts:
- AI assistance, affected components and human verification:
- Edition-specific disclosure requirements checked:

## Revision preflight
- Argument pass:
- Number/citation/protocol consistency pass:
- Independent reader explanation test:
- Official formatting / anonymity / artifact access pass:
- Actual uploaded file inspected: