I am slightly skeptic of this study, as AI hasn't been with us long enough to actually get the real impact in the academic data. A proper academic research can take 2-3 years to mature, so the reak research that AI might have impacted is not matured and born yet. What we see in the papers currently is just easy fruits of the academic tree that are becoming available due to AI.

You clearly don't know how academia works, most academics are just trying to stay afloat in the toxic academic world. Justy trying to make a basic living. Academic classism is left back way in the past.