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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 authors identify gaps in understanding the robustness and potential biases of LLMs in automatic text scoring tasks. They note that while prior research focused on accuracy, "their robustness and p
- The paper identifies the need to test robustness of classifiers against "new models or unknown obfuscations" and to evaluate "out-of-domain classification effectiveness of the detectors".
- The study implies a need for stronger focus on authorship ethics training and institutional mechanisms to address unethical co-authorship practices in academic institutions.
- The authors identify the lack of standardization in AI disclosure as a critical gap. They note that "the lack of standardization is one of the crucial issues in the field of generative AI" and that "t
- The authors identify that "Future work employing bibliometric and scientometric methodologies could help determine whether these patterns represent isolated anomalies or emerging systemic trends." The
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