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cs.DL2026

Scoring Grant Applications with Large Language Models

Mike Thelwall, David Pride, Francesco Osborne +4

Purpose: Assessing grant applications is time-consuming and difficult, adding to the overall burden of academic peer review. Whilst funders are exploring whether AI can help, there…

cs.DL2026

Do Large Language Models Favour Any Research Topics?

Mike Thelwall

Large Language Models (LLMs) can estimate the quality of published journal articles, potentially supporting human assessment when evaluations are needed. Whilst there are reasons t…

cs.DL2026

Is ChatGPT as reliable as individual reviewers assessing the quality of published journal articles from PDFs or titles and abstracts?

Mike Thelwall, Parveen Ali

Whilst Large Language Models (LLMs) have a weak to moderate ability to score published journal articles for research quality, they have not been compared with individual expert rev…

cs.DL2026

Large Language Models for Departmental Expert Review Quality Scores

Liv Langfeldt, Dag W. Aksnes, Henrik Karlstrøm +1

Presumably, peer reviewers and Large Language Models (LLMs) do very different things when asked to assess research. Still, recent evidence has shown that LLMs have a moderate abili…

cs.DL2026

Designing large language model prompts to extract scores from messy text: A shared dataset and challenge

Mike Thelwall

In some areas of computing, natural language processing and information science, progress is made by sharing datasets and challenging the community to design the best algorithm for…

cs.DL2025

Prompt perturbation and fraction facilitation sometimes strengthen Large Language Model scores

Mike Thelwall

Large Language Models (LLMs) can be tasked with scoring texts according to pre-defined criteria and on a defined scale, but there is no recognised optimal prompting strategy for th…

cs.DL2025★ 1 cited

Can ChatGPT be a good follower of academic paradigms? Research quality evaluations in conflicting areas of sociology

Mike Thelwall, Ralph Schroeder, Meena Dhanda

Purpose: It has become increasingly likely that Large Language Models (LLMs) will be used to score the quality of academic publications to support research assessment goals in the…

cs.DL2025

Can Small and Reasoning Large Language Models Score Journal Articles for Research Quality and Do Averaging and Few-shot Help?

Mike Thelwall, Ehsan Mohammadi

Previous research has shown that journal article quality ratings from the cloud based Large Language Model (LLM) families ChatGPT and Gemini and the medium sized open weights LLM G…