Claim 35 · research-integrity · finding

Fortenbach et al. 2026 found that by 2025, 25.7% of sampled ophthalmology research articles and 21.6% of commentary articles contained AI-likelihood scores of more than 2 standard deviations above the baseline. Among publications with outlier scores, 22.3% of sentences in research articles and 90% of sentences in commentary articles were likely written by AI.

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E17 states that by 2025, 25.7% of sampled research articles and 21.6% of commentary articles contained AI-likelihood scores more than 2 standard deviations above baseline, and that among publications with outlier scores, 22.3% of sentences in research articles and 90% in commentary articles were likely written by AI.

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    “By 2025, 25.7% of sampled research articles and 21.6% of commentary articles contained AI-likelihood scores of more than 2 standard deviations above the baseline.”

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    “Sentence-level analysis showed that among those publications containing outlier scores, 22.3% of sentences in research articles and 90% of sentences in commentary articles were likely written by AI.”

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