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Dr Mengdie Zhuang wins Best Paper at ACM ICTIR 2025

Dr Mengdie Zhuang, Lecturer in Data Science, was a co-author of the paper ‘Impersonating the Crowd: Evaluating LLMs’ Ability to Replicate Human Judgment in Misinformation Assessment’, which received the Best Paper award at ACM ICTIR 2025.
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New research suggests ChatGPT ignores article retractions and errors when used to inform literature reviews

A paper co-authored by Professor Mike Thelwall and Dr Irini Katsirea examines issues of Large Language Models (LLMs) failing to flag articles which have been retracted or are discredited when asked to evaluate their quality.
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How to speed up peer review - research co-led by Prof Stephen Pinfield featured in Nature and Science

The experimental ‘Distributed Peer Review’ system more than doubles the speed of reviewing grant applications, and has been featured in the two journals’ news sections after being presented at the MetaScience 2025 conference.
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Lecturer reveals BBC doubts over Battle of Orgreave coverage

A Sheffield journalism lecturer has used freedom of information laws to uncover internal BBC concerns about the way it covered the 'Battle of Orgreave' during the miners' strike, which began 30 years ago this month.