Artificial Intelligence and the Development of Academic Authorship: Analyzing AI-Generated Content, Ethical Issues, and Intellectual Property Challenges
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on scholarly communication and authorship. It illustrates the challenges and possibilities of incorporating AI into research that focuses on authorship attribution, intellectual property (IP), ethics, and legal aspects. The paper explores recent literature findings and outlines AI applications in academic research, authorship, and IP policies. The approaches of analysis include case studies with a literature review. This study demonstrates that artificial intelligence technologies, such as natural language processing (NLP) systems and large language models (LLM), evolve in composition and responsibility into intellectual contribution by incorporating multidisciplinary aspects and analyzing previous authorship models (COPE, ICMJE, and CSE). The methodology gathers data, studies the case of AI applications, and delivers standards to follow for academic publication in the AI era. The findings suggest that existing authorship models are inappropriate for AI contributions and suggest revised criteria that consider the ethical and legal aspects of accountability and IP. Technological advances have implications in academic writing, a fact carried by AI tools to enhance productivity and speed with transparency and intellectual contribution concerns. As artificial intelligence continues to affect scholarly work, authorship, and writing, frameworks must evolve to provide credit verification and maintain the integrity of research findings.
Authors: Samer Kobrossy, Yaser Jasim, Ismail Ismail, Narsa Goud, Shayma Jasim, Ali Awqati
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7083808518
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