Kobak et al. 2025 estimate that at least 13.5% of 2024 biomedical abstracts were processed with LLMs, with the lower bound reaching 40% for some subcorpora; they describe the resulting impact on scientific writing as unprecedented, surpassing the effect of major world events such as the COVID pandemic.
E1 states that at least 13.5% of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs with the lower bound reaching 40% for some subcorpora, and E2 states that LLMs had an unprecedented impact on scientific writing surpassing major world events such as the COVID pandemic.
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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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“We show that LLMs have had an unprecedented impact on scientific writing in biomedical research, surpassing the effect of major world events such as the COVID pandemic.”
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