Investigating The Role of ChatGPT in Enhancing Academic Research: A Study of the impact of ChatGPT to improve the academic research

Abstract

As a result of the massive development in natural language processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligent (AI) tools and applications have become a very interesting topic. This paper aims to investigate the role of AI applications in enhancing academic research efficiently. Precisely, the primary goal of this study is  to explore how AI applications like ChatGPT could be integrated within the academic research process. Furthermore, it seeks to demonstrate how AI can be integrated into the academic research, such as generating research topics, conducting a good literature review, and improving the quality of the academic writing. Furthermore, the study analyzes the role of AI applications in fostering critical thinking, creativity, and research productivity. A sample of 57 students from the school of Applied science and engineering at the Libyan Academy, Zintan, was selected for the survey. The survey's primary objective was to examine the positive impact of AI applications on academic research.  A qualitative approach was adopted, including a survey of researchers’ feedback on how AI tools influence the quality of their research. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) and Minitab software were used to analyze the collected data, and to draw conclusions. The results showed that AI applications, such as ChatGPT, have been widely used across various research domains by graduate students. Furthermore, the findings revealed that AI has significantly increased research productivity, improved writing skills, and saved time and effort throughout the research process.