Controversy
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Will AI Influence the Integrity of the Scientific Publication Process?
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Claims
PLOS AI "will never replace a person’s expertise and judgement [in scientific publishing]."Sep 18, 2025
Technology Networks
"Over-reliance on AI could reduce the role of critical human judgment in scientific inquiry, potentially overlooking novel or unconventional insights that AI algorithms might miss."Apr 24, 2024
Jim Jansen"AI has the potential to be an assistive tool in peer review — supporting summarization, drafting, and literature searches. But a fully AI-driven review is unacceptable."Sep 15, 2025
WJMH"AI can ensure greater consistency and precision of a manuscript and provide a faster, streamlined workflow and an enhanced automated
publication process."Sep 22, 2025
ACS Publications"Using a small number and diversity of AI systems for scientific production has the potential to amplify the scale of biases, propagating them efficiently on a global level and avoiding the mechanism of individual scrutiny often used to identify these biases."Sep 22, 2025
ScienceDirect "The future of scholarly writing will not be about rejecting AI, but about writing with it—critically, creatively, and self-consciously."Sep 23, 2025
NCBI"AI will expedite the peer-review process, offering critical insights to define and uphold rigorous publication standards."Apr 29, 2001
Michael J. Black
"This [AI] is not a great accelerator for science or even a helpful tool for science writing. It is potentially distorting and dangerous for science."Sep 23, 2025
arXiv"This lack of scrutiny [in AI scientist systems] poses a risk of introducing flaws that could undermine the integrity, reliability, and trustworthiness of their research outputs."Sep 10, 2025
The Royal Society"Using AI to estimate the quality of articles and predict citation counts also risks amplifying biases, putting authors from under-represented disciplines, institutions, or regions at a disadvantage."Sep 15, 2023
WJMH"AI can streamline the peer review process in publishing by identifying suitable reviewers and flagging potential conflicts of interest."Sep 22, 2025
NCBI"AI will create new avenues to refine the editorial process [that] are poised to drive the evolution of scholarly publishing."Apr 29, 2001
PublishingState"Artificial intelligence is already deeply embedded in the machinery of scientific publishing and its presence is only going to grow."Jul 19, 2025
Elsevier "The future of scientific publishing and peer review will likely include more AI-powered tools."Sep 15, 2025
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