Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers

arXiv:2404.01268v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Scientific publishing lays the foundation of science by disseminating research findings, fostering collaboration, encouraging reproducibility, and ensuring that scientific knowledge is accessible, verifiable, and built upon over time. Recently, there has been immense speculation about how many people are using large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT in their academic writing, and to what extent this tool might have an effect on global scientific practices. However, we lack a precise measure of the proportion of academic …

abstract arxiv chatgpt collaboration cs.ai cs.cl cs.dl cs.lg cs.si foundation knowledge language language models large language large language models llms mapping papers people publishing reproducibility research science scientific speculation type