SciGraphSelect: Auditable Scientific Data Selection through Knowledge--Reasoning Graphs

Abstract

Scientific data selection is typically driven by relevance or utility scores, providing limited insight into why a document is retained. We introduce SciGraphSelect, a reference-grounded framework for auditable scientific data selection. SciGraphSelect organizes domain-specific knowledge, reusable reasoning operations, and reference-attested relations into a typed knowledge--reasoning graph, then scores candidate documents using concept coverage, relation and path co-support, and directional alignment. To avoid over-interpreting document embeddings, rich relational structure is preserved on the reference side while candidate-side evidence is treated conservatively without assuming relation entailment. By exposing the reference-grounded evidence behind each selection, SciGraphSelect brings traceability to the upstream construction of scientific training corpora and complements downstream scientific verification.