LLM推动科研跨领域探索与分工细化,团队协作更灵活
Scientific exploration, collaboration and labor division in the large language model era

- 分析77万科学家数据,发现2022年后跨领域研究显著增加
- 高AI写作信号作者更倾向跨域探索,且团队角色分工更细化
- 软件与验证角色增多,管理与概念角色减少,协作更松散灵活
大规模语言模型(LLMs)快速融入科研流程,但其扩散如何影响科学家的研究方向选择与团队构建尚不明确。本研究整合了PubMed Central全文、OpenAlex出版与合作记录,涵盖775,323名科学家,并分析137,120篇多作者论文的CRediT贡献声明。2022年后,科学家跨更多认知距离领域的发表增多,尤其在已有成就的学者及非英语母语的中低收入国家学者中更为明显。具有较强AI写作特征的作者在广泛采用LLMs前即更具跨学科性,2022年后该差距进一步扩大。合作网络也变得更加跨学科,但强AI写作信号作者的跨学科性与其合作者领域多样性关联减弱。团队内部劳动分工趋于分化:后2022年论文作者平均角色范围更窄,合作者共同承担的角色更少,角色配置更灵活。软件与验证类角色上升,概念与管理类角色下降。这些趋势表明,科研中的探索、协作与分工正经历系统性重构。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly and significantly entered scientific workflows, but it remains unclear how their diffusion is associated with changes in scientists' strategies in research directions and team building. We link PubMed Central full text with OpenAlex publication and collaboration histories for 775,323 scientists and analyze CRediT contribution statements from 137,120 multi-author papers. After 2022, scientists increasingly published across more intellectually distant fields and entered fields in which they had not previously worked. These increases in interdisciplinarity and exploration were especially pronounced among established scientists and scientists from non-English-speaking low- and middle-income countries. Authors with stronger AI-writing signals were already more interdisciplinary and exploratory before the widespread adoption of LLMs, and the gap widened further after 2022 compared with authors with weaker AI-writing signals. Scientists' collaboration networks also became more interdisciplinary after 2022. Yet, among authors with stronger AI-writing signals, research interdisciplinarity was less closely tied to the disciplinary diversity of their collaborators. The division of labor within research teams also became more differentiated. Contributors on papers published after 2022 reported narrower role sets on average, coauthors shared fewer roles in common, and their role profiles became less rigid and more fluid. Software and validation roles increased, while conceptual and management roles decreased. These patterns suggest that team members are taking on more distinct responsibilities and may rely less on one another to perform research tasks. Overall, this study indicates that the LLM era coincides with a broader reorganization of scientific exploration, collaboration, and the division of labor.
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