Generative Artificial Intelligence Policy
Generative Artificial Intelligence Policy
MIJST applies this policy to all participants in the publication process — authors, reviewers, and editors — following current COPE and ICMJE guidance on generative AI and large language models (LLMs) in scholarly publishing.
1AI Tools Cannot Be Authors
Generative AI tools do not meet MIJST's authorship criteria (see the Authorship and Contributorship policy): they cannot take responsibility for the accuracy or integrity of the work, cannot give consent to publish, and cannot hold copyright. No AI tool may be listed as an author or co-author.
2Disclosure Requirement
Authors: must disclose any use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in preparing a submission — including drafting or editing text, generating or refining code, assisting with data analysis, or producing figures — in the Methods section or Acknowledgments, naming the tool and describing what it was used for.
3Author Responsibility
Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, and integrity of their submission, including any content produced with the assistance of generative AI. This includes independently verifying any facts, citations, or claims an AI tool produced — AI tools are known to generate plausible but incorrect or fabricated content, and this is not a permitted excuse for an inaccurate manuscript.
4Prohibited Uses
Fabrication: Generating or falsifying data, results, or citations
Image integrity: Producing images, figures, or data visualizations that misrepresent actual research findings, without clear disclosure
Substitution: Replacing genuine data analysis, literature review, or scholarly reasoning
Undisclosed authorship: Producing substantial manuscript content presented as the authors' own original writing without the disclosure required in Section 2
5Reviewer Confidentiality
Reviewers: must not upload manuscripts, or any part of them, to generative AI tools or services not covered by a confidentiality agreement with MIJST. Submitted manuscripts are confidential; using a public AI tool to summarize, evaluate, or draft a review discloses that content outside the peer-review process.
6Editorial Use
Editors and editorial staff are subject to the same restriction as reviewers under Section 5. Any AI-based tool used to support editorial workflows (for example, similarity or plagiarism screening) must be a tool formally adopted by MIJST, used only in a supporting role, and must never be the sole basis of an editorial decision.
7Relationship to Plagiarism Screening
Text produced or modified with generative AI assistance remains subject to MIJST's standard plagiarism and similarity screening (see the Allegations of Misconduct policy). A low similarity score does not exempt a submission from originality review, and undisclosed AI-generated text presented as original authorship may be treated as a form of misconduct.
