Mid-sized R1 reference profile — ~$200M R&D, 1,000-1,500 TT faculty, ~3,000 publications/yr

Constructed from NCSES Academic Institution Profiles per-institution R&D, personnel, and degree data, the representative mid-sized R1 used in §5.3.2 has ~$200 million in annual research expenditure, 1,000-1,500 tenure-track faculty of whom 250-500 are actively extramurally funded, and produces ~3,000 peer-reviewed publications per year.

This profile anchors the four-term-formula application in C-0005: the 80% non-retrievable fraction across ~3,000 publications produces ~2,400 unretrievable papers per year, which the per-paper Stern attribution (E-0036) and the per-paper reuse loss (Piwowar/Vision in S-0055) scale up to the ~$1.1 billion per-year latent liability figure.

The profile is positioned at the median of the 187-institution R1 distribution defined by the 2025 Carnegie threshold (E-0088); larger R1s have proportionally larger exposure, smaller R1s proportionally smaller, and the formula scales linearly with publication volume.