Patterns and Purposes: A Cross-Journal Analysis of AI Tool Usage in Academic Writing

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This study investigates the use of AI tools in academic writing through an analysis of AI usage declarations in journals.

• Using a mixed-methods approach combining content analysis, statistical analysis, and text mining, this study analyzed 135 AI declarations from 8633 articles across 27 categories.
• Results show that ChatGPT dominates academic writing assistance (73.3 percent usage).
• The primary purposes of AI integration are concentrated on lower-level cognitive tasks, specifically improving readability (57.8 percent) and grammar checking (19.3 percent).