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How does the progressive embracement of Large Language Models (LLMs) affect scientific peer reviewing? This multifaceted question is fundamental to the effectiveness -- as well as to the integrity -- of the scientific process. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Luca Demetrio , Giovanni Apruzzese , Kathrin Grosse , Pavel Laskov , Emil Lupu , Vera Rimmer , Philine Widmer

The volume of scientific submissions continues to climb, outpacing the capacity of qualified human referees and stretching editorial timelines. At the same time, modern large language models (LLMs) offer impressive capabilities in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jialiang Wang , Yuchen Liu , Hang Xu , Kaichun Hu , Shimin Di , Wangze Ni , Linan Yue , Min-Ling Zhang , Kui Ren , Lei Chen

The rapid development of science and technology has been accompanied by an exponential growth in peer-reviewed scientific publications. At the same time, the review of each paper is a laborious process that must be carried out by subject…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Weizhe Yuan , Pengfei Liu , Graham Neubig

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has inspired researchers to integrate them extensively into the academic workflow, potentially reshaping how research is practiced and reviewed. While previous studies highlight the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Rui Li , Jia-Chen Gu , Po-Nien Kung , Heming Xia , Junfeng liu , Xiangwen Kong , Zhifang Sui , Nanyun Peng

Scholarly peer review is a cornerstone of scientific advancement, but the system is under strain due to increasing manuscript submissions and the labor-intensive nature of the process. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Rui Ye , Xianghe Pang , Jingyi Chai , Jiaao Chen , Zhenfei Yin , Zhen Xiang , Xiaowen Dong , Jing Shao , Siheng Chen

AI is reshaping academic research, yet its role in peer review remains polarising and contentious. Advocates see its potential to reduce reviewer burden and improve quality, while critics warn of risks to fairness, accountability, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shiping Chen , Shu Zhong , Duncan P. Brumby , Anna L. Cox

A number of scientific conferences and journals have recently enacted policies that prohibit LLM usage by peer reviewers, except for polishing, paraphrasing, and grammar correction of otherwise human-written reviews. But, are these policies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Rounak Saha , Gurusha Juneja , Dayita Chaudhuri , Naveeja Sajeevan , Nihar B Shah , Danish Pruthi

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in academic peer review, yet their reliability, alignment with human judgment, and robustness to adversarial attacks remain poorly understood. We present a systematic benchmark of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lingyao Li , Junjie Xiong , Changjia Zhu , Runlong Yu , Chen Chen , Junyu Wang , Renkai Ma , Zhicong Lu

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

The growing number of submitted papers has motivated the exploration of Large Language Models (LLMs) as a means to support and augment the peer review process, particularly in terms of improving its speed and scalability. Yet, it remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Krzysztof Żurawicki , Julia Farganus , Arkadiusz Gaweł , Mateusz Bystroński , Tomasz Jan Kajdanowicz

The creation of systematic literature reviews (SLR) is critical for analyzing the landscape of a research field and guiding future research directions. However, retrieving and filtering the literature corpus for an SLR is highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Lucas Joos , Daniel A. Keim , Maximilian T. Fischer

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

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

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

Academic paper review is a critical yet time-consuming task within the research community. With the increasing volume of academic publications, automating the review process has become a significant challenge. The primary issue lies in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xian Gao , Jiacheng Ruan , Zongyun Zhang , Jingsheng Gao , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

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

With the rapid growth of academic publications, peer review has become an essential yet time-consuming responsibility within the research community. Large Language Models (LLMs) have increasingly been adopted to assist in the generation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Xian Gao , Jiacheng Ruan , Zongyun Zhang , Jingsheng Gao , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

Generative AI (GenAI) use in research writing is growing fast. However, it is unclear how peer reviewers recognize or misjudge AI-augmented manuscripts. To investigate the impact of AI-augmented writing on peer reviews, we conducted a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Hilda Hadan , Derrick Wang , Reza Hadi Mogavi , Joseph Tu , Leah Zhang-Kennedy , Lennart E. Nacke

Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, but also consistently alter the intended…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Marwa Abdulhai , Isadora White , Yanming Wan , Ibrahim Qureshi , Joel Leibo , Max Kleiman-Weiner , Natasha Jaques

Ideal or real - that is the question.In this work, we explore whether principles from game theory can be effectively applied to the evaluation of large language models (LLMs). This inquiry is motivated by the growing inadequacy of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Gao Yang , Yuhang Liu , Siyu Miao , Xinyue Liang , Zhengyang Liu , Heyan Huang