Can AI make research more open? - Impact of Social Sciences

"At Springer Nature, we recently conducted a pilot study simply requiring authors to explain why any unshared data hadn’t been deposited in a public repository before final acceptance. This request alone raised data-sharing compliance from 51% to 87% in participating journals. However, while such editorial engagement clearly works, scaling it across hundreds of titles poses a challenge if it depends solely on manual oversight....

We are currently conducting a small pilot with our authors on a small number of our OA journals, to see if generative AI can be used to identify promising datasets buried in traditional articles and help transform them into data manuscripts. Crucially, authors can then review and edit these drafts, ensuring the final text accurately represents their work and meets community standards. This human-in-the-loop approach is vital to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the generated content...."