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Harnessing GPT for Enhanced Academic Writing: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences

2025-06-20

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Large Language Models (LLMs) bring both risk and opportunity to scholarly communication, yet their effects on expert‐level research remain untested. We conducted the first randomized controlled trial of GPT-4 in expert academic writing, implemented as a three-day hackathon (n=22 early-career social scientists) in collaboration with Springer Nature. Participants were randomized to unrest...

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Literature Corpus work: 1256af2f-8bcf-5f44-84a6-df00e055fa6e
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6937665/v2

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