(15 Sep 2022) Research England has commissioned a study of whether artificial intelligence could be used to predict the quality of research outputs based on analysis of journal abstracts, in a move that could potentially remove the need for peer review from the Research Excellence Framework (REF).
The study, part of a broader review of the REF called the Future Research Assessment Programme, investigates whether certain words contained in the summary of research papers submitted for the latest exercise correlate with assessments by independent evaluators, and whether the scores could be predicted in future using an algorithm.
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