PNAS: Over Half of All Academic Articles Now Show LLM Influence—7.3M-Paper Study [R]
Summary
This PNAS study of 7.3 million academic papers finds that by 2025, over half show LLM influence, with significant inequality in adoption across lower-prestige and non-English institutions.
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