Major Revision, Minor Accountability: LLMs as Reviewers of Published Articles in Top-Tier Journals
With the growth of scientific output, the peer review system is approaching a breaking point: reviewers are increasingly hard to secure, and turnaround times lengthen accordingly. LLM-assisted or LLM-generated peer review has been proposed as a remedy, but how such models would treat manuscripts already published in top-tier journals, the closest thing the current system has to a gold standard of scientific validity, is not known. Here we assembled a corpus of 200 articles, each released under a CC BY 4.0 license and published in 2026, from 20 general-science, life-science, and clinical-medicine journals including Nature, Science, and Cell, and asked four current LLMs (two proprietary, tw...
| Authors | Bastien Le Guellec, Su Hwan Kim, Raphael Bentegeac et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.DL |
| Published | 22 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 22 October 2026 |
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