[Air-L] Research Participation Request - Generative AI Impact on Scholarly Research & Publishing

[kevin.witzenberger at posteo.de]

Dear colleagues,



We need your help with an important research project!



Our team at Queensland University of Technology and University of Melbourne is undertaking research funded through an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project (DP250100074). We are seeking to understand the impact of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies on scholarly research and publishing.



Our project focuses on Research GenAI (RGAI) tools. RGAI tools are being marketed by both AI companies and academic publishers to a cross-disciplinary academic audience, promising to automate research discovery and writing tasks, such as identifying and/or summarising published research, writing literature reviews, conducting data analysis, and synthesising findings.



Such tools and platforms include Consensus, Elicit, Research Rabbit, Scholarcy, Scite, SciSpace, ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot, with more being released every day. They are being promoted and adopted in a context of experimentation, uncertainty, and controversy.



If you are an academic at any career level and in any field who has used RGAI tools in your work, we would love to speak with you regarding your experiences.



To begin, we invite you to complete a very short initial survey (1 minute): https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=o1IL3MVo90SIHZOD2IULlmQi7q-Siv9BmOHn06TNH91UNzVaOUhNTUI3MzRHS1JaWFJKTEJFMlhOMi4u&route=shorturl


For more information about our project, visit: https://research.qut.edu.au/researchgenai/



Please feel free to share with your colleagues and networks!

Best,
Kevin

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Dr Kevin Witzenberger
Research Fellow, Generative AI Lab
Digital Media Research Centre and School of Communication
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
Queensland University of Technology

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