Academia

Currently studying for an exam tomorrow, and I now realize why I'm always so sleepy in class: the prof. speaks sooo sloowllyy with pauses - in-between - most words. I can't keep focused because of that; thankfully, he has narrated powerpoints that I can download and watch... at 3x normal speed. Which is nice because a 37 minute video is now 12 minutes, but goddamn it makes classes so rough.

The use of ChatGPT and similar Large Language Model (LLM) tools in scholarly communication and academic publishing has been widely discussed since they became easily accessible to a general audience in late 2022. This study uses keywords known to be disproportionately present in LLM-generated text to provide an overall estimate for the prevalence of LLM-assisted writing in the scholarly literature. For the publishing year 2023, it is found that several of those keywords show a distinctive and disproportionate increase in their prevalence, individually and in combination. It is estimated that at least 60,000 papers (slightly over 1% of all articles) were LLM-assisted, though this number could be extended and refined by analysis of other characteristics of the papers or by identification of further indicative keywords.

Without paywall: https://archive.ph/a61fM

Without paywall: https://archive.ph/Vf47N

I was checking the bibliometric metrics of some colleagues in Switzerland and found that even experienced professors at SUPSI (Professional University in Switzerland) have low bibliometric indices. The indices are the same for an average 1-2-year-old post-doc in Europe.

I was wondering why this happens. I don't think it's because they are not good. Instead, I would focus the attention on the evaluation of the productivity in Switzerland. Is there any system in Switzerland that pushes researchers to publish more?

This makes me wonder if any database catalogs the systems for evaluating research around the globe...

Without pay-wall: https://archive.ph/Nmczw