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Main Authors: Höpner, Niklas, Eshuijs, Leon, Alivanistos, Dimitrios, Zamprogno, Giacomo, Tiddi, Ilaria
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05712
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author Höpner, Niklas
Eshuijs, Leon
Alivanistos, Dimitrios
Zamprogno, Giacomo
Tiddi, Ilaria
author_facet Höpner, Niklas
Eshuijs, Leon
Alivanistos, Dimitrios
Zamprogno, Giacomo
Tiddi, Ilaria
contents Foundation models are increasingly used in scientific research, but evaluating AI-generated scientific work remains challenging. While expert reviews are costly, large language models (LLMs) as proxy reviewers have proven to be unreliable. To address this, we investigate two automatic evaluation metrics, specifically citation count prediction and review score prediction. We parse all papers of OpenReview and augment each submission with its citation count, reference, and research hypothesis. Our findings reveal that citation count prediction is more viable than review score prediction, and predicting scores is more difficult purely from the research hypothesis than from the full paper. Furthermore, we show that a simple prediction model based solely on title and abstract outperforms LLM-based reviewers, though it still falls short of human-level consistency.
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spellingShingle Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Artificially Generated Scientific Research
Höpner, Niklas
Eshuijs, Leon
Alivanistos, Dimitrios
Zamprogno, Giacomo
Tiddi, Ilaria
Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Foundation models are increasingly used in scientific research, but evaluating AI-generated scientific work remains challenging. While expert reviews are costly, large language models (LLMs) as proxy reviewers have proven to be unreliable. To address this, we investigate two automatic evaluation metrics, specifically citation count prediction and review score prediction. We parse all papers of OpenReview and augment each submission with its citation count, reference, and research hypothesis. Our findings reveal that citation count prediction is more viable than review score prediction, and predicting scores is more difficult purely from the research hypothesis than from the full paper. Furthermore, we show that a simple prediction model based solely on title and abstract outperforms LLM-based reviewers, though it still falls short of human-level consistency.
title Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Artificially Generated Scientific Research
topic Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05712