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Are explicit novelty claims in research abstracts associated with higher ChatGPT scores?
Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can estimate research quality from article titles and abstracts, and decision makers may increasingly use LLM scores to support researc…
Does ChatGPT score research quality differently by gender?
Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall
Large Language Models (LLMs) are being considered for research evaluation, raising concerns about the introduction of AI bias. This study investigates whether ChatGPT research qual…
Have LLM-associated terms increased in article full texts in all fields?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha
The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and DeepSeek for translation and language polishing is a welcome development, reducing the longstanding publishing barrier to n…
Which stylistic features fool ChatGPT research evaluations?
Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall
Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to be used to support research evaluation and have a moderate capability to estimate the research quality of a journal article from…
Can ChatGPT evaluate research environments? Evidence from REF2021
Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall, Elizabeth Gadd
UK academic departments are evaluated partly on the statements that they write about the value of their research environments for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) periodic a…
How much are LLMs changing the language of academic papers after ChatGPT? A multi-database and full text analysis
Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall
This study investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs) are influencing the language of academic papers by tracking 12 LLM-associated terms across six major scholarly databases (S…
Journal Quality Factors from ChatGPT: More meaningful than Impact Factors?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha
Purpose: Journal Impact Factors and other citation-based indicators are widely used and abused to help select journals to publish in or to estimate the value of a published article…
Assessing the societal influence of academic research with ChatGPT: Impact case study evaluations
Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall
Academics and departments are sometimes judged by how their research has benefitted society. For example, the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) assesses Impact Case Studies (I…
Do bibliometrics introduce gender, institutional or interdisciplinary biases into research evaluations?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
Systematic evaluations of publicly funded research typically employ a combination of bibliometrics and peer review, but it is not known whether the bibliometric component introduce…
Do altmetric scores reflect article quality? Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework 2021
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
Altmetrics are web-based quantitative impact or attention indicators for academic articles that have been proposed to supplement citation counts. This article reports the first ass…
Artificial intelligence technologies to support research assessment: A review
Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall
This literature review identifies indicators that associate with higher impact or higher quality research from article text (e.g., titles, abstracts, lengths, cited references and…
Is big team research fair in national research assessments? The case of the UK Research Excellence Framework 2021
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
Collaborative research causes problems for research assessments because of the difficulty in fairly crediting its authors. Whilst splitting the rewards for an article amongst its a…
Why are co-authored academic articles more cited: Higher quality or larger audience?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
Co-authored articles tend to be more cited in many academic fields, but is this because they tend to be higher quality or is it an audience effect: increased awareness through mult…
Terms in journal articles associating with high quality: Can qualitative research be world-leading?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
Purpose: Scholars often aim to conduct high quality research and their success is judged primarily by peer reviewers. Research quality is difficult for either group to identify, ho…
In which fields do higher impact journals publish higher quality articles?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
The Journal Impact Factor and other indicators that assess the average citation rate of articles in a journal are consulted by many academics and research evaluators, despite initi…
Is Research Funding Always Beneficial? A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of UK Research 2014-20
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +5
The search for and management of external funding now occupies much valuable researcher time. Whilst funding is essential for some types of research and beneficial for others, it m…
Predicting article quality scores with machine learning: The UK Research Excellence Framework
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +6
National research evaluation initiatives and incentive schemes have previously chosen between simplistic quantitative indicators and time-consuming peer review, sometimes supported…
Which international co-authorships produce higher quality journal articles?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
International collaboration is sometimes encouraged in the belief that it generates higher quality research or is more capable of addressing societal problems. Nevertheless, while…
In which fields are citations indicators of research quality?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
Citation counts are widely used as indicators of research quality to support or replace human peer review and for lists of top cited papers, researchers, and institutions. Neverthe…
COVID-19 publications: Database coverage, citations, readers, tweets, news, Facebook walls, Reddit posts
Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall
The COVID-19 pandemic requires a fast response from researchers to help address biological, medical and public health issues to minimize its impact. In this rapidly evolving contex…
Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?
Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall
Dissertations can be the single most important scholarly outputs of junior researchers. Whilst sets of journal articles are often evaluated with the help of citation counts from th…
Can Microsoft Academic help to assess the citation impact of academic books?
Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall
Despite recent evidence that Microsoft Academic is an extensive source of citation counts for journal articles, it is not known if the same is true for academic books. This paper f…
Can Microsoft Academic assess the early citation impact of in-press articles? A multi-discipline exploratory analysis
Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall, Mahshid Abdoli
Many journals post accepted articles online before they are formally published in an issue. Early citation impact evidence for these articles could be helpful for timely research e…