AI RESEARCH
Do Large Language Models Reduce Research Novelty? Evidence from Information Systems Journals
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2603.22510v1 Announce Type: cross Large language models such as ChatGPT have increased scholarly output, but whether this productivity boost produces genuine intellectual advancement remains untested. I address this gap by measuring the semantic novelty of 13,847 articles published between 2020 and 2025 in 44 Information Systems journals. Using SPECTER2 embeddings, I operationalize novelty as the cosine distance between each paper and its nearest prior neighbors.