New pre-print article: Results from our AI field experiment are here!

How can AI support or facilitate scientific writing? Last fall Prof. Ratkovic, his colleague Thomas Gschwend and Springer Nature  organized a hackathon with 22 international participants to explore this question. The results of the field experiment are now available online as a pre-print article:

Ratkovic, M. and Gschwend, T. and Wendering, L. and Bauer, K. and Kurella, A.-S. and Rittmann, O. and Sauter, M. and Schwitter, N., Harnessing GPT for Enhanced Academic Writing: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences (published June 20, 2025), available at SSRN here  or here.