Papers should also be "hot topics". Mentioning AI will increase the citation rate
Author：Eve Cole
Update Time：2024-11-23 15:12:02
With the popularity of artificial intelligence (AI), more and more scientific researchers are beginning to use AI tools. A recent study published in the British journal Nature Human Behavior found that scientific research papers that mentioned AI had higher citation rates than scientific research papers that did not mention AI.
This is an intelligent robot that can write calligraphy taken at the Japan International Robot Exhibition held in Tokyo, Japan on November 30, 2023. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Qian Zheng Researchers from Northwestern University and other institutions in the United States analyzed about 75 million papers published from 1960 to 2019, covering 19 disciplines. The results found that papers whose titles or abstracts mention AI terms such as "machine learning" and "deep neural networks" are more likely to be among the top 5% of the most cited papers in their field, and tend to receive more citations in other fields. Quote. The study also found that researchers in the 19 disciplines involved in the study have increased their use of AI tools over the past 20 years, but there are large differences, with computer science, mathematics and engineering having the highest usage rates, and history, art and politics Science has the lowest usage rate, with geology, physics, chemistry, and biology having usage rates in between. This study provides a quantitative analysis of how AI is changing scientific research. However, given the survey's deadline, the study does not capture the latest advances in AI, where large language models such as ChatGPT have changed the way some researchers do research. The findings also raise concerns. Lisa Messery, an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University who focuses on the field of technology, said she is worried that some researchers will abuse AI tools in order to increase the citation rate of their papers.
