@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-large-language-models, title = "Can Large Language Models Forecast What Researchers Study Next?", author = "Li, Fenghai and Tang, Zihan and Yu, Haofei and Zhao, Yining and You, Jiaxuan", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1810/", pages = "41244--41274", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }