Our publication adheres to the recommendations of STM (International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers), COPE (Committee on Scientific Publication Ethics ) and EASE (European Association of Scientific Editors ) regarding the use of artificial intelligence and technologies supporting it in scientific publications. The editorial board will monitor the development of AI technologies and adjust or improve the rules for the use of generative artificial intelligence and AI-enabled technologies.
Attention! In its editorial policy, the publication uses the StrikePlagiarism software and computing complex with the option of checking for the use of AI .
Definition
AI tools include any automated or semi-automated systems, such as generative language models, automatic text analysis tools, image processing algorithms, programming or data analysis tools, speech editing services, etc.
Basic principles
- Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of their work. AI cannot be listed as an author or co-author of an article. Only humans can bear ethical, legal, and scientific responsibility for the content of an article.
- - Any use of AI must be clearly disclosed in accordance with the requirements of this Policy.
- - The use of AI must not lead to violations of scientific integrity, including data fabrication, plagiarism, fictitious citations, or false visualizations.
For authors
Responsibilities:
Literature review: AI raw data should not be used as primary sources to support specific claims.
Methodology: Any use of AI to collect, process, analyze, or interpret data should be declared in the AI-declaration section. These statements should preferably be accompanied by appropriate reliability metrics.
Data management: Any use of AI for all types of research activities, e.g. visualization (creation of tables, figures, images, videos or other outputs), data collection, data analysis, etc. should be declared. This should be noted in the captions or comments of these outputs. Visualizations created using AI may require additional checks to ensure their reliability, and may require steps to ensure their reproducibility. Editors have the right to retract an article due to a “nonsense” image.
Writing, language, and style editing: the editorial team recommends declaring the use of AI for writing, language, or style editing.
Formulation or interpretation of research results and conclusions: the use of AI tools for any scientific reasoning and their final synthesis is strictly prohibited. This is the result of exclusively human intellectual work!
Declaration on the use of AI
Authors should provide a clear disclaimer if any AI tools or AI-enabled tools were used in the preparation of the manuscript after the list of references in a separate section titled “Declaration on the use of AI”.
For these purposes, the editorial team recommends using the GAIDeT (Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy) Declaration Generator, an interactive tool for researchers that helps to reveal the delegation of tasks to generative AI tools according to the GAIDeT taxonomy. To do this, follow the link , select delegated AI tasks (see above), and generate a declaration, specifying the name of the tool.
For reviewers
Responsibilities. The journal's policy on the use of AI tools strongly recommends that reviewers follow the EASE recommendations on how to declare the use of AI and apply it during review (EASE Recommendations on how to declare the use of artificial intelligence and apply it during review
Rights: If reviewers suspect a violation of the journal's AI policy, we recommend contacting the editor with a clear description of their suspicions.
Review policy
Due to the rapid development of AI, this Policy will be reviewed at least annually or upon the publication of new recommendations from COPE or other leading organizations in the field of scientific publications.