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AI overviews may be disrupting research discovery and impact metrics.

The rise of AI-generated overviews for research papers may be negatively impacting the traditional ecosystem of scholarly discovery. Concerns are being raised about who controls the visibility of research when zero-click readership becomes prevalent. This shift also questions how research impact is measured and whether users are truly engaging with the material. AI

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IMPACT AI-generated content may alter how researchers discover and engage with scholarly work, impacting traditional metrics of impact and visibility.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece discussing the potential negative impacts of AI-generated research overviews on scholarly discovery.

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 · [email protected] ·

    Are AI overviews quietly breaking our research discovery ecosystem? If zero-click readership becomes the norm, who controls visibility, what does impact even me

    Are AI overviews quietly breaking our research discovery ecosystem? If zero-click readership becomes the norm, who controls visibility, what does impact even measure, and can we still claim to be “engaging” with research at all? # AI # scholcomm # research https:// scholarlykitch…