26 Citation And Attribution

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This page explains how we hope people cite and acknowledge DeepScientist.

This document is intentionally gentle:

  • it is a request for fair academic attribution
  • it is not an extra restriction added to the software license
  • it is not legal advice

Short version

If DeepScientist materially helps a paper, report, benchmark write-up, or public research artifact, please:

  1. cite the DeepScientist paper
  2. disclose meaningful AI assistance honestly
  3. avoid presenting AI-generated or AI-simulated results as purely human or purely real if that would mislead readers

If you only used DeepScientist in a minor operational way, such as opening files, launching a shell, or checking a repository layout, citation is usually not necessary.

When we strongly encourage citation

Citation is strongly encouraged when DeepScientist materially contributes to work such as:

  • research planning or task decomposition
  • baseline restoration or experiment orchestration
  • literature triage or structured paper analysis
  • result analysis, synthesis, or writing support
  • figure, draft, or rebuttal preparation

The practical rule is simple:

  • if DeepScientist changed the substance, speed, or shape of the research output in a meaningful way, please cite it

When citation is usually not necessary

Citation is usually unnecessary when DeepScientist was used only as:

  • a local launcher
  • a terminal convenience layer
  • a generic code or file browser
  • a one-off operational helper without material research contribution

Preferred citation

Paper link:

  • https://openreview.net/forum?id=cZFgsLq8Gs

BibTeX:

@inproceedings{
weng2026deepscientist,
title={DeepScientist: Advancing Frontier-Pushing Scientific Findings Progressively},
author={Yixuan Weng and Minjun Zhu and Qiujie Xie and QiYao Sun and Zhen Lin and Sifan Liu and Yue Zhang},
booktitle={The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=cZFgsLq8Gs}
}

Suggested acknowledgment text

If DeepScientist materially assisted the project, a short acknowledgment like the following is usually enough:

We used DeepScientist to assist parts of the research workflow, including selected planning, implementation, experiment orchestration, analysis, and/or writing support. Final judgments, claims, and reported real experimental results remain the responsibility of the human authors.

You can shorten or adapt this wording to match venue norms.

DeepScientist's science-evidence workflow was informed by FermiLink's scientific simulation and package-knowledge design. If your project materially uses FermiLink itself, cite it directly in addition to DeepScientist.

Repository:

  • https://github.com/TaoELi/FermiLink

Paper:

  • Gang Meng, Andres Felipe Bocanegra Vargas, Xinwei Ji, Federico Garcia-Gaitan, Felipe Reyes-Osorio, Jalil Varela-Manjarres, Yafei Ren, Mohammadhasan Dinpajooh, Branislav K. Nikolic, Tao E. Li. FermiLink: A Unified Agent Framework for Multidomain Autonomous Scientific Simulations. arXiv:2604.03460 (2026).

AI assistance disclosure

We strongly encourage clear disclosure when DeepScientist contributed to:

  • writing
  • coding
  • experiment setup
  • result interpretation
  • figure generation
  • literature review

The disclosure does not need to overstate use. It should simply help readers understand where meaningful AI assistance existed.

Not a license condition

This citation guidance does not change the repository software license.

In particular:

  • it is not a new license condition
  • it does not terminate your software rights if you forget to cite
  • it is a community and academic attribution request, not a software-usage gate