Quantifying large language model usage in scientific papers
2025/08/04 by Weixin Liang, Yaohui Zhang, Zhengxuan Wu +11 · 1 voice · 51 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Psychology · #Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies #Computer science #Data science #Information retrieval #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Natural language processing #Psychology #Topic Modeling
paper · doi:10.1038/s41562-025-02273-8
published in Nature Human Behaviour 9(12), 2599-2609 (Nature Portfolio)
openalex publication_date 2025/08/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
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