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Research theme
Authorship & Attribution
The Authorship & Attribution theme comprises 107 papers in this corpus published between 1997 and 2026. Work here is dominated by Empirical Study, Experimental, Position Paper. 5 open research gaps have been surfaced in this area.
Methodology profile
- Empirical Study28 (26%)
- Experimental16 (15%)
- Position Paper14 (13%)
- Conceptual13 (12%)
- Benchmarking11 (10%)
- Literature Review9 (8%)
Research domains
- Research Integrity81 (76%)
- Scholarly Infrastructure7 (7%)
- Academic Writing6 (6%)
- Peer Review3 (3%)
- Human-AI Collaboration2 (2%)
- Bias & Epistemic Risk1 (1%)
Frequent sub-topics
AI and non-human co-authorship in literary prizes, authorial power dynamics, AI-assisted creative writing · 1stylometric feature engineering for classical Arabic texts · 1AI detection tools and authorship attribution reliability · 1Distinguishing human-authored from AI-generated texts; emotion and personality in LLM outputs · 1LLM fingerprinting detection in non-English text · 1historiographical error in authorship of UNESCO Library Manifesto; use of generative AI to understand error perpetuation · 1fine-tuned RoBERTa classifier for AI-generated text detection with interpretability analysis · 1philosophical perspectives on AI-assisted journalism authorship · 1
Open research gaps
- The author identifies that "there is almost no ethics literature yet on the question of whether and when the researcher has actually committed any serious research misconduct" regarding AI-produced ma
- Not explicitly identified in the abstract
- The authors identify that "To date, however, its [likelihood ratio framework] application has been confined to English-language texts" and that "Combining these diverse approaches through fusion promi
- The authors identify that existing "zero-shot methods that attempt to operationalize these outputs have met with limited success" and propose that the problem lies in using mean aggregation across tok
- The paper identifies a gap in longitudinal empirical research on AI authorship perceptions pre- and post-LLM boom, and questions the viability of 'authorship' as a conceptual framework for computer-ge
Representative papers
- Nonhuman “Authors” and Implications for the Integrity of Scientific Publication and Medical KnowledgeAnnette Flanagin · 2023 · 399 citations
- Letter to editor: NLP systems such as ChatGPT cannot be listed as an author because these cannot fulfill widely adopted authorship criteriaNicole Shu Ling Yeo-Teh · 2023 · 62 citations
- ChatGPT as an “author”: Bibliometric analysis to assess the validity of authorshipSerhii Nazarovets · 2024 · 29 citations
- Authorship Attribution in the Era of LLMs: Problems, Methodologies, and ChallengesBaixiang Huang · 2025 · 28 citations
- Is AI my co-author? The ethics of using artificial intelligence in scientific publishingBarton Moffatt · 2024 · 28 citations
- ChatGPT isn’t an author, but a contribution taxonomy is neededYana Suchikova · 2024 · 11 citations
- What Is a Person? Emerging Interpretations of AI Authorship and AttributionHeather Lea Moulaison · 2023 · 9 citations
- AI, originality, and attribution: Researchers’ perspectives on distinguishing contributionsYanyi Wu · 2025 · 7 citations