arXiv cs.AIPaper
From Citations to Contributions: LLM-Assisted Credit Scoring of Research Articles
This is solid academic work on an unsolved problem: citation systems treat all references as equally important, which understates how much a paper owes to incremental steps versus fundamental breakthroughs. The LLM-as-comparator approach is pragmatic, though the scalability story stops at experiments. Real value emerges if this ships in research tools, but that's a product problem, not a research problem. For most builders, this stays theoretical unless your system needs to surface influence accurately.