An interesting evolution from Mike Thelwall. A year ago, he was cautiously exploring whether LLMs could approximate expert research assessment. Today, he reports that ChatGPT-5 mini reached correlations of up to 0.905 with expert REF2021 quality assessments across some disciplines, using a dataset of more than 107,000 UK research articles. :doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/jdis-2026-0058 #ResearchEvaluation #Scientometrics #ResearchAssessment #ChatGPT #LLM #AI #SciencePolicy