chore(release): v4.4.0 — author-strategy trajectory archetypes + image-synthesis probe + OpenAlex ref tier

Bundles the unreleased work since v4.3.0 (no skill / reporting-guideline / detector
count change — still 45 skills / 36 guidelines / 27 detectors):

- /author-strategy: optional trajectory-archetype classification (A1-A6 + composite)
  as an explainable, multi-label, confidence-scored heuristic with a CSV-bound
  approved-manifest disambiguation gate and stdlib-only target-author attribution (#163).
- /peer-review + /self-review: Image-Synthesis / cross-modality probe IS1-IS4 +
  reviewer-side reference-integrity spot-check (#161).
- /verify-refs: OpenAlex tertiary index for conference-proceedings / non-DOI recovery (#160).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: Yoojin-nam

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [4.4.0] - 2026-06-20
+
 ### Added
 
 - **`/peer-review` + `/self-review` — Image-Synthesis / Cross-Modality Generation probe module (IS1–IS4) + reviewer-side reference-integrity spot-check.** New domain-probe module `image_synthesis.md` (vendored byte-identical into `/self-review`; `MODULES` 10 → 11, sync gate updated) for studies that synthesize one imaging modality from another (MRI→PET / MRI→CT / non-contrast→contrast / low-dose→full-dose) and claim the output carries functional/molecular information or substitutes for the unavailable target. **IS1** determinism/information-ceiling (the synthetic image is a deterministic function of the source, so a same-reader "source + synthetic > source alone" gain is a presentation/interpretability effect absent a direct source→label baseline); **IS2** target-derived-preprocessing / undescribed slice-selection leakage (a lesion mask drawn on the target modality guiding slice selection or training makes "function inferred from structure" circular — undescribed provenance is itself a Major #1 candidate); **IS3** global-vs-lesion-level quantitative agreement (whole-organ SUVR agreement does not establish lesion-level fidelity); **IS4** mechanistic/proxy-signal plausibility (name what the source physically measures vs the target's biology — high image similarity is not evidence an unmeasured signal was recovered). Routed from a new peer-review **Phase 2K** + Phase 3 QC item 15 + Phase 5 routing line, and a `/self-review` routing-table row. Per Phase 2F, IS2/IS4 are typically unfixable-in-current-form and govern the recommendation toward Reject-leaning. Companion **reviewer-side reference-integrity spot-check** added to the Phase 2 issue checklist + Phase 3 QC item 16 (all original-research reviews): spot-check the load-bearing Introduction/Discussion citations used *as evidence the method/premise works* — a paper cited for a different task, a duplicate reference, a wrong year/author — phrasing unconfirmed suspicions "please verify" (the reviewer-side mirror of the authoring citation-safety discipline). Motivation: a decision-audit of a cross-modality MRI→synthetic-PET reader-study review where the three structurally distinct synthesis failure modes were split across reviewers and the reference-list errors went uncaught on the reviewer side.

CITATION.cff

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 repository-code: "https://github.com/Aperivue/medsci-skills"
 url: "https://github.com/Aperivue/medsci-skills"
 license: MIT
-version: "4.3.0"
-date-released: "2026-06-16"
+version: "4.4.0"
+date-released: "2026-06-20"
 doi: "10.5281/zenodo.20155321"
 identifiers:
   - description: "Concept DOI (always points to the latest version)"

README.md

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 ## What's New
 
+**v4.4** adds reviewer/analysis depth with no new skill or reporting-guideline count (still 45 skills / 36 guidelines / 27 detectors):
+
+- **`/author-strategy` — trajectory-archetype classification (optional).** Classifies a queried author's PubMed trajectory into abstract career archetypes (A1 infrastructure builder, A2 methodology rule-maker, A3 clinical→AI hybrid, A4 SR/MA volume engine, A5 large-consortium participation, A6 device/technique depth, + a computed composite) as an **explainable, multi-label, confidence-scored heuristic — not an objective verdict**. The rubric is a single canonical YAML (the narrative doc is generated from it); scores exclude `unavailable` signals (h-index/citation/venue-tier → `[VERIFY]`, never fabricated); a **disambiguation gate** binds an approved `corpus_manifest.json` to the CSV (csv + PMID-set hashes) so a surname alone never classifies, and target-author attribution never borrows a co-author's ORCID/affiliation.
+- **`/peer-review` + `/self-review` — Image-Synthesis / cross-modality probe (IS1–IS4)** for studies that synthesize one imaging modality from another and claim the output carries the target's information, plus a reviewer-side reference-integrity spot-check.
+- **`/verify-refs` — OpenAlex tertiary index** recovers conference-proceedings / non-DOI citations (NeurIPS/ICLR/ACL) that fall through PubMed and CrossRef, the free analogue of a portal's second index.
+
 **v4.3** hardens the **cross-sectional / observational cohort** review surface end-to-end, much of it reverse-engineered from real CC-BY cohort papers (learn-only under the license firewall) — no new skill or reporting-guideline count (still 45 skills / 36 guidelines); analysis-integrity detectors **25 → 27**:
 
 - **Observational probes O1 → O14** (`/peer-review` + `/self-review`, vendored) — over-adjustment / analysis-unit clustering / outcome construct-validity (O7–O9), overlapping-subset gradient (O10), **complex-survey design & weighting** for NHANES/KNHANES (O11), **data-driven threshold / "inflection-point" mining** (O12), **cross-sectional mediation** temporal-order & sequential-ignorability (O13), and **interaction scale** — additive RERI/AP/S vs multiplicative (O14). Plus a new **clinical-prediction-model** probe module **CP1–CP4** and survival **S9** (panel-data / multistate variance).