{"apiVersion":"2.0.0","documentationUpdated":"2026-09-25","data":{"id":"methodology","record_type":"methodology","url":"https://www.opendata.co.il/methodology","title":"מתודולוגיה","data":{"version":"2.0.0","date":"2026-09-25","documentation_updated_on":"2026-09-25","data_catalog":"/api/v1/data-catalog","selection_type":"editorial shortlist","ranking_type":"editorial prominence within the reviewed selection; not clinical quality","weights":{"professional":65,"recognition":20,"visibility":15},"components":{"documented_focus":20,"institutional_profile":15,"documented_leadership":15,"documented_professor_title":10,"verified_licence_seniority":5,"published_recognition":20,"institution_report_alternative":15,"dedicated_institutional_profile":5,"independent_media_evidence":10},"unassessed":["verified_licence_seniority","independent_media_evidence","search_result_visibility"],"scoring_policy":"Unassessed fields receive no awarded points and are explicitly labelled. No penalties or clinical conclusions from missing evidence. No cross-source licence transfer. Publications excluded.","rules":["Directory category membership is discovery evidence only and earns zero ranking points. Preserve site versus derived provenance; independently verify inferred memberships before eligibility.","Use either direct publisher recognition points OR institution report points; never both.","Count an institution announcement and its ranking publisher as one recognition event, not two endorsements.","Retrieval date does not establish when an undated profile was updated.","No points for missing evidence. Missing evidence is not a negative clinical finding.","Selection is editorial by documented focus and institutional breadth, not the ten highest scores from all licensed doctors.","The internal editorial score orders the selected set only; scores are not displayed on profile cards. Ties are alphabetical in Hebrew.","A score is not comparable across specialties or a probability of quality.","No review averages, paid placement, publication counts, outcomes or inferred licence validity are used. Role/professor signals require a linked institutional source in the reviewed editorial ledger; not a name-only enrichment join."],"limits":["Only urology has a 50-name pool in the original editorial ledger. Separate internal research queues contain 50 unreviewed candidates per specialty; they have not expanded the reviewed comparison.","Neurology initially has ten selected candidates and is not a competitive comparison.","Most added specialty profiles rely on one ranking publisher; independent current-role verification remains incomplete.","Forbes appearances usually come from an institutional report, not the complete publisher list.","The government export has no current licence, retirement or death status.","Editorial profiles have not been identity-linked to register records."],"architecture":{"hospital_enrichment":"30,884 candidate source groups in the supplied export generated 2026-09-25, including 5,945 listings across seven hospitals and 18,407 unverified Ministry candidates. Hospital roles, departments, source URLs and observation dates remain distinct from official candidate certificates and dated status observations. A published affiliation does not verify present employment. The earlier Sheba-only endpoints remain available and overlap this directory.","record_linking":"All cross-source links remain unverified. Supplied aggregate evidence grades, normalized-name candidates, partial-name evidence and human resolutions are not independent identity verification. Inspect per-source evidence and review reasons. Never copy licence_candidate facts into profile. Legacy exact-name suggestions remain reversible candidates.","expertise_directory":"Broader medical directory with 129 categories. Listed memberships by default; inferred assignments opt-in and labelled. Category membership verifies neither identity nor specialist certification.","profile_pages":"Enriched hospital/practice pages at /physicians/{entry_id}; source-only official pages at /registry/{record_key}; editorial pages at /doc/{slug}. Enriched profile licence/year/certificates remain null until identity is verified. Source-separated names only; never guess name parts.","registry":"Complete supplied published snapshot exported 2026-09-24: 64,674 rows, 57,305 licence numbers, 57,495 exact licence/name/date groups, 187 conflicting licence numbers, 78 specialty names. No current status in the bulk snapshot. Not a live register or a count of active practitioners.","geography":"Clinic/practice locations only. Never infer clinic city or region from hospital affiliation. Published practice localities cover 9,637 source groups; city filtering is available. Six editorial practice-city areas are available with a versioned mapping at /api/v1/regions; these are our search groups, not official districts. City and region must match the same locality. Street addresses are outside scope. With city or region, category must come from practice-derived tags. Localities on hospital profiles remain unverified practice-record candidates.","updates":"Dated imported snapshots; no scheduled refresh is active. Documentation, import, observation and editorial edition dates are distinct.","ranking_enrichment":"Version 2 orders the reviewed profiles by professional evidence (65 maximum), recognition (20) and documented visibility (15). Unassessed seniority/media/search-volume earns no points. Hospital candidate joins never supply editorial facts. Scientific publications are excluded.","discovery":"Server-rendered pages, canonical URLs, JSON-LD, sitemap, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, data catalogue, OpenAPI and MCP. These do not guarantee indexing, connection or AI citation.","publication":"Public read-only edition. Thin source profiles and conflicting registry identities are noindex; canonical-domain DNS/SSL must still be validated independently."}},"snapshot_date":"2026-09-25"},"links":{"self":"https://www.opendata.co.il/api/v1/fetch?id=methodology","documentation":"https://www.opendata.co.il/developers","openapi":"https://www.opendata.co.il/openapi.json","methodology":"https://www.opendata.co.il/methodology"},"meta":{"snapshotDates":{"registry":"2026-09-24","directory":"2026-09-25"}}}