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Jul 2026
HOW DEEP DO LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS INTERNALIZE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE AND CITATION PRACTICES?
It is found that LLMs systematically reinforce the Matthew effect by favoring highly cited papers, with field-specific variation in the rate at which generated references match real papers in bibliometric databases.
Andres Algaba, Vincent Holst, Floriano Tori et al.
· Quantitative Science Studies · 2 citations