Open Science Meet-up – AI in peer review (23 Jun 2026)
The next Open Science Göttingen Meet-up will take place on 23 June 2026 from 13:00 – 15:00 h, and the organizers would like approaches and guidance related to the use of AI in peer review. Note that the meeting will take place in person at the SR 15 at the department of Physics.
Please register via: https://events.gwdg.de/e/37osmu
What will it be about?
Peer review remains a corner stone of quality assurance and selection processes in the context of scholarly publishing, academic conferences and research funding. However, in an age of AI, there are multiple 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: for the writing of project proposals or academic works, pre-submission review/feedback, editorial screening of manuscripts, journal and reviewer matching, compliance checks, review of manuscripts, formatting, metadata generation, metrics and dissemination.
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, the following questions will be discussed:
- 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?
Please get in touch with Dr. Birgit Schmidt, if you would like to share your experiences and views via a short presentation.
Agenda
13.00 – 13.15 Welcome & Introduction
13.15 – 14.30 Short presentations
- Funder regulations for AI usage in review processes – Katharina Beier, UGOE
- Journal editor perspective – Simon Blackwell, Georg-Elias-Mueller-Institute of Psychology, UGOE
- The Good, the Bad, and the Bizarre of AI-Generated Reviews – Frederic Kirstein, UGOE
- Reviewer and author perspective – Markus Osterhoff, UGOE
- Publisher perspective – Johannes Wagner, Copernicus Publications
14.30 – 15.00 Discussion
Archive of presentations & materials: https://owncloud.gwdg.de/index.php/s/Z6qmhAv8ypUQCOv
Back to master pad: https://pad.gwdg.de/OpenScienceGOE