The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/
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Ben Williamson
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Tracks. 5 years ago our little education technology journal got 300 submissions in a year. Today we passed 900 in 6 months. It's not all LLMs of course, but that is an infuriating part of the problem...
Samuel MooreI've heard in the past few days from three journals in different fields that submissions have increased 40-50% in the past few years. Not great...
Finishing my academic year on this tiny high - got a short new open access chapter out about my teaching with "EdTech Sci-Fi". The student response to this has been great - more imaginative, critical and creative than I ever really anticipated! 🤩 www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...
Research and Teaching with Speculative Fictionwww.bloomsburycollections.comResearch measuring the effects of AI in education has a major quality control problem that should disqualify most of it from being considered in policy discussions or applied in teaching practice. Quick new post from me codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/t...
Remember that meta-study of ChatGPT effects on learning that got retracted by SpringerNature recently? Here's a new paper showing why it and others like it can't be trusted due to serious issues with the underlying literature. Bluntly put, they're meta-reviews of junk science doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
A completely inevitable effect of AI in academia is that when you submit manuscripts soon you'll be subjected to an absolute battery of AI-driven automated screening to check if you used AI. I anticipate many irate emails from angry authors to editors will follow.
Academic Publishing NewsMDPI nudges research integrity checks to AI www.eurekalert.org/news-release...