Applications of large language models (LLMs) in peer review and publication
| Manuscript screening & quality assessment |
Generating review comments & feedback | Potential biases & limitations |
Editorial office applications |
|---|---|---|---|
| - Assist in proofreading and error detection [48,49] - Assess quality and bias in systematic reviews [50] - Develop methodology grading systems [51] - Benefit underprivileged researchers [52] |
- Streamline peer review [53] - LLM comments overlap with human [54] - Tend to provide overly positive reviews [55] - May reduce reviewer overload [56] |
- Demographic biases [57,58] - Overreliance may reduce diversity [54] - Lack deep domain knowledge [59,60] - Human oversight remains essential [54] |
- Prescreen manuscripts - Convert into easily understandable language and multilingual translation - Consider data privacy |