2 papers
physics.soc-ph2026
How large should academic departments be?
Jan Bachmann, Lisette EspÃn-Noboa, Fariba Karimi +3
Academic departments are the primary unit of scholarship and education at universities, and they vary vastly in their sizes. However, the consequences and natural dynamics of depar…
cs.CY2025
Whose Name Comes Up? Auditing LLM-Based Scholar Recommendations
Daniele Barolo, Chiara Valentin, Fariba Karimi +3
This paper evaluates the performance of six open-weight LLMs (llama3-8b, llama3.1-8b, gemma2-9b, mixtral-8x7b, llama3-70b, llama3.1-70b) in recommending experts in physics across f…