How Predictive Text Reshapes Academic Credit - One Suggestion At a Time

Predictive writing tools quietly redistribute academic credit by repeating what their training data already overrepresent. Each suggested citation shifts visibility toward familiar names and reduces diversity. Citation by Completion shows that authority-bearing phrasing increases citation concentration and lowers novelty. The study proposes the Fair Citation Prompt, a transparent system that reveals how suggestions are generated, separates evidence from authority language, and ensures that fairness becomes a structural property of writing tools.