ChatGPT in Academic Writing and Publishing: A Comprehensive Guide

Scientific writing is a difficult task that requires clarity, precision, and rigour. It also involves a large amount of research, analysis, and synthesis of information from various sources. However, scientific writing is also hard, time-consuming, and susceptible to errors. Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, such as ChatGPT, can simplify academic writing and publishing. ChatGPT is based on the two most advanced large language models (LLMs), GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, which can produce natural language texts in many fields of knowledge. ChatGPT has been fine-tuned with both supervised and reinforced learning technologies to improve its quality and performance. ChatGPT has many applications and uses in academic and scientific writing and publishing such as hypothesis generation, literature review, safety recommendations, troubleshooting, tips, paraphrasing and summarising, editing, and proofreading, journal selection, journal style formatting, and other applications. In this book chapter, we will discuss the main advantages, examples, and applications of ChatGPT in academic and scientific writing from research conception to publishing.