Asheley R. Landrum

All Accept, No Reject: Evaluating LLMs as “Peer” Reviewers

An exponential rise in manuscript submission volume has strained the peer review system, prompting interest in automation from overburdened scholars and publishers. We systematically evaluated GPT-4.1, GPT-4o, o1, o3, o3-mini, and GPT-5 as “peer” reviewers, comparing their evaluation and acceptance of 137 manuscripts…