Can AI Solve the Peer Review Crisis? A Large-Scale Experiment on LLM's Performance and Biases in Evaluating Economics Papers
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- Pat Pataranutaporn & Nattavudh Powdthavee & Pattie Maes, 2025. "Can AI Solve the Peer Review Crisis? A Large Scale Experiment on LLM's Performance and Biases in Evaluating Economics Papers," Papers 2502.00070, arXiv.org.
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Artificial Intelligence; peer review; large language model (LLM); bias in academia; economics publishing; equity-efficiency trade-off;All these keywords.
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- A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
- C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AIN-2025-02-24 (Artificial Intelligence)
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- NEP-EXP-2025-02-24 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-SEA-2025-02-24 (South East Asia)
- NEP-SOG-2025-02-24 (Sociology of Economics)
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