**Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary**
"_We study vocabulary changes in more than 15 million biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 indexed by PubMed and show how the appearance of LLMs led to an abrupt increase in the frequency of certain style words. This excess word analysis suggests that at least 13.5% of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs._"
Dmitry Kobak et al., Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary. Sci. Adv.11, eadt3813 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt3813.
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@tg9541 I suspect you may be correct. In Michael Gordin's '_Scientific Babel: The language of science from the fall of Latin to the rise of English_'' he charts how English became the dominant language in published chemistry research. A lot of that history concerns scientists having to translate published research from different languages into a language that they can comprehend. If one's language skills are not up to par, I can see why a scientist would use technology to facilitate the process.
@bibliolater My hunch is that Non-English speaking countries show the most acute change.