Can we identify prominent scholars using ChatGPT?

Frode Eika Sandnes ()
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Frode Eika Sandnes: Oslo Metropolitan University

Scientometrics, 2024, vol. 129, issue 1, No 28, 713-718

Abstract: Abstract It may be tempting to learn about scholars using ChatGPT. To validate ChatGPT for this task a small experiment was conducted based on the 50 most cited researchers at the author’s university. The results show that ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) only recognized an ad-hoc subset of the scholars with no obvious connection to the respective authors’ citation attributes or internet footprint. Moreover, details about the recognized scholars were often erroneous.

Keywords: Evaluating; Research impact; Research visibility; ChatGPT; Large language models; Scientometrics; Bibliometrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I23 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-023-04882-4

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