Scientists Using AI Publish 40-80% More Papers, Straining an Already Overwhelmed Peer Review System
A study of over two million papers finds LLM adoption dramatically boosts researcher output — especially for non-native English speakers — but the surge is raising urgent questions about quality dilution and review capacity.
A new analysis of more than two million scientific papers has quantified what many researchers suspected: scientists who adopt large language models increase their publication output by an average of 40 percent, as @skdh reported. For non-native English speakers, the boost is even more dramatic — up to 80 percent — suggesting that LLMs are functioning as a great equalizer in academic publishing by removing the language barrier that has historically disadvantaged researchers outside the anglophone world.
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