Kobak et al. 2025 analyzed more than 15 million biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 and estimated that at least 13.5% of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs, with the lower bound reaching 40% in some subcorpora.
E4 states verbatim that Kobak et al. studied more than 15 million biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 (PubMed-indexed), that at least 13.5% of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs, and that this lower bound reached 40% for some subcorpora.
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“This excess word analysis suggests that at least 13.5% of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs. This lower bound differed across disciplines, countries, and journals, reaching 40% for some subcorpora.”
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