Field diffusion · Computer science · General science
Study measures rapid foundation-model uptake across scientific papers
A large-scale bibliometric measurement of foundation-model use in scientific publications.
Summary
Trišović, Fogelson, Sivaloganathan, and Thompson report a large-scale analysis of foundation-model usage in scientific papers. They find rapid adoption, strongest uptake in linguistics, computer science, and engineering, dominance of vision and open-weight models, and a widening gap between frontier model scale and models actually used by scientists.
AI role
Foundation models are measured as methods used in scientific papers, with model families and scale compared across fields.
Narrative role
This moves diffusion evidence beyond surveys by measuring actual paper-level use of foundation models across science and showing where adoption is concentrated.
Caveat
The work is a preprint, and bibliometric use of foundation models does not by itself establish improved scientific productivity.