37th Open Science Göttingen Meet-up: Peer review in the age of AI

Registration via: https://events.gwdg.de/event/1442/

Peer review remains a corner stone of quality assurance and selection processes in the context of scholarly publishing, academic conferences and research funding. In an age of AI, there are multiple opportunities and challenges for authors and reviewers. Reviewers are faced with a glut of review requests which are often automatically but poorly matched with their expertise areas. Moreover, quality issues can arise from the use of AI by authors, e.g. hallucinated citations and manipulation of images.
AI-assistance is now available at all stages of the research cycle and in particular, in the publication process.
Several research funders, institutions and publishers have developed guidance on what use is considered acceptable in the context of writing and peer review, and how this use should be disclosed.

In this session, we would like to explore and discuss questions such as:
- What guidance is available from research funders and publishers on the use of AI tools in peer review?
- What AI use is acceptable in peer review, and how should it be disclosed?
- What AI tools are available to assist peer reviewers?
- What tools might be used by authors to check and improve works or proposals before submission?