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Peer review is the cornerstone of academic publishing, yet the process is increasingly strained by rising submission volumes, reviewer overload, and expertise mismatches. Large language models (LLMs) are now being used as "reviewer aids,"…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Changjia Zhu , Junjie Xiong , Renkai Ma , Zhicong Lu , Yao Liu , Lingyao Li

Large Language Models are versatile general-task solvers, and their capabilities can truly assist people with scholarly peer review as \textit{pre-review} agents, if not as fully autonomous \textit{peer-review} agents. While incredibly…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Akhil Pandey Akella , Harish Varma Siravuri , Shaurya Rohatgi

Peer review is fundamental to scientific research, but the growing volume of publications has intensified the challenges of this expertise-intensive process. While LLMs show promise in various scientific tasks, their potential to assist…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Zhijian Xu , Yilun Zhao , Manasi Patwardhan , Lovekesh Vig , Arman Cohan

Novelty is a crucial criterion in the peer review process for evaluating academic papers. Traditionally, it's judged by experts or measure by unique reference combinations. Both methods have limitations: experts have limited knowledge, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Wenqing Wu , Chengzhi Zhang , Yi Zhao

The impressive performance of large language models (LLMs) has attracted considerable attention from the academic and industrial communities. Besides how to construct and train LLMs, how to effectively evaluate and compare the capacity of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zhumin Chu , Qingyao Ai , Yiteng Tu , Haitao Li , Yiqun Liu

The advent of large language models (LLMs) offers unprecedented opportunities to reimagine peer review beyond the constraints of traditional workflows. Despite these opportunities, prior efforts have largely focused on replicating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yaohui Zhang , Haijing Zhang , Wenlong Ji , Tianyu Hua , Nick Haber , Hancheng Cao , Weixin Liang

Peer reviewing is a central process in modern research and essential for ensuring high quality and reliability of published work. At the same time, it is a time-consuming process and increasing interest in emerging fields often results in a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Michael Fromm , Evgeniy Faerman , Max Berrendorf , Siddharth Bhargava , Ruoxia Qi , Yao Zhang , Lukas Dennert , Sophia Selle , Yang Mao , Thomas Seidl

One of the most important yet onerous tasks in the academic peer-reviewing process is composing meta-reviews, which involves assimilating diverse opinions from multiple expert peers, formulating one's self-judgment as a senior expert, and…

The peer-review process is the most widely accepted certification mechanism for officially accepting the written results of researchers within the scientific community. An essential component of peer-review is the identification of…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2008-12-02 Marko A. Rodriguez , Johan Bollen

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in scientific peer review, assisting with drafting, rewriting, expansion, and refinement. However, existing peer-review LLM detection methods largely treat authorship as a binary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Soroush Sadeghian , Alireza Daqiq , Radin Cheraghi , Sajad Ebrahimi , Negar Arabzadeh , Ebrahim Bagheri

Novelty assessment is a central yet understudied aspect of peer review, particularly in high volume fields like NLP where reviewer capacity is increasingly strained. We present a structured approach for automated novelty evaluation that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Osama Mohammed Afzal , Preslav Nakov , Tom Hope , Iryna Gurevych

While large language models (LLMs) offer promising capabilities for automating academic workflows, existing systems for academic peer review remain constrained by text-only inputs, limited contextual grounding, and a lack of actionable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mengze Hong , Di Jiang , Weiwei Zhao , Yawen Li , Yihang Wang , Xinyuan Luo , Yanjie Sun , Chen Jason Zhang

A core part of scientific peer review involves providing expert critiques that directly assess the scientific claims a paper makes. While it is now possible to automatically generate plausible (if generic) reviews, ensuring that these…

Peer review is a widely accepted mechanism for research evaluation, playing a pivotal role in academic publishing. However, criticisms have long been leveled at this mechanism, mostly because of its poor efficiency and low reproducibility.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jialiang Lin , Jiaxin Song , Zhangping Zhou , Yidong Chen , Xiaodong Shi

Scientific paper evaluation often involves not only assessing a manuscript itself, but also relating it to contemporaneous research and prior literature. However, existing LLM-based methods typically model these signals separately and lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Pujun Zheng , Wanying Ren , Jiacheng Yao , Guoxiu He , Star X. Zhao

Peer review underpins scientific progress, but it is increasingly strained by reviewer shortages and growing workloads. Large Language Models (LLMs) can automatically draft reviews now, but determining whether LLM-generated reviews are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Hyungyu Shin , Jingyu Tang , Yoonjoo Lee , Nayoung Kim , Hyunseung Lim , Ji Yong Cho , Hwajung Hong , Moontae Lee , Juho Kim

Peer review is a cornerstone of quality control in scientific publishing. With the increasing workload, the unintended use of `quick' heuristics, referred to as lazy thinking, has emerged as a recurring issue compromising review quality.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Sukannya Purkayastha , Zhuang Li , Anne Lauscher , Lizhen Qu , Iryna Gurevych

The paper describes a potential platform to facilitate academic peer review with emphasis on early-stage research. This platform aims to make peer review more accurate and timely by rewarding reviewers on the basis of peer prediction…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Alexander Ugarov

The adoption of large language models (LLMs) is transforming the peer review process, from assisting reviewers in writing detailed evaluations to generating entire reviews automatically. While these capabilities offer new opportunities,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Sai Suresh Macharla Vasu , Ivaxi Sheth , Hui-Po Wang , Ruta Binkyte , Mario Fritz

Peer review constitutes a core component of scholarly publishing; yet it demands substantial expertise and training, and is susceptible to errors and biases. Various applications of NLP for peer reviewing assistance aim to support reviewers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Nils Dycke , Ilia Kuznetsov , Iryna Gurevych