Can large language models provide high-quality desk review decisions in an orthopaedic surgery journal? A concordance study comparing three AI models to human editorial decisions

Lupon, Elise; Bérard, Quentin; Migaud, Henri; Clavert, Philippe; Micicoi, Grégoire

doi:10.1016/j.otsr.2026.104801

Can large language models provide high-quality desk review decisions in an orthopaedic surgery journal? A concordance study comparing three AI models to human editorial decisions

BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into scientific publishing workflows, yet no study has formally evaluated the ability of large language models (LLMs) to reproduce human editorial desk-review (R0) decisions in a general orthopaedic surgery journal. We investigat…