Science Is Falling Behind the Frontier: Foundation Model Adoption Across Half a Million Papers

arXiv:2511.21739 · cs.DL, cs.AI · Submitted 2025-11-21 · Read on arXiv

cs.DL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2025-11-21

Updated: 2026-10-02

Terminology

• Foundation Model — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Papers — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AI Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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