Generative AI Policy

Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies Policy

IKAD-ECCR recognises that artificial intelligence and AI-assisted technologies may support scholarly work, but their use must not compromise authorship accountability, research integrity, confidentiality, originality, or the reliability of the scholarly record.

AI cannot be an author

Artificial intelligence systems, language models, chatbots, and other automated tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors because they cannot take responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, originality, ethical compliance, or accountability of scholarly work.

Author responsibility

Authors remain fully responsible for all text, data, analyses, interpretations, images, references, code, translations, and other material submitted to the journal, including material produced or modified with AI assistance.

Disclosure

Substantive use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in manuscript drafting, translation, coding, data analysis, literature processing, image generation, or other research activities should be transparently disclosed where relevant to understanding how the work was produced.

Routine spelling, grammar, formatting, or accessibility assistance normally does not require disclosure unless it materially changes scholarly content.

Verification

Authors must independently verify AI-assisted outputs. Particular care is required for references, quotations, statistics, legal provisions, policy documents, factual claims, translations, and methodological information.

Fabrication and falsification

AI must not be used to fabricate or falsify participants, data, quotations, sources, references, images, observations, ethics approvals, results, or research findings.

Images and media

AI-generated or materially AI-altered images must not be represented as authentic research evidence unless generation or transformation is an explicit, justified, and reproducible part of the research method and is clearly disclosed.

Confidential material

Authors, reviewers, and editors must not upload confidential manuscripts, unpublished data, personal information, peer-review reports, or other protected material to external AI systems where confidentiality, retention, training use, or data governance cannot be assured.

Peer reviewers

Reviewers remain personally responsible for their assessments. AI must not replace expert scholarly judgement. Any authorised use must preserve confidentiality and should be disclosed to the editor where it materially contributes to the review.

Editors

Editors must protect the confidentiality of submitted material and must not delegate editorial decisions to AI systems. Editorial judgement and accountability remain human responsibilities.

Undisclosed or inappropriate use

Material misuse of AI, including fabricated citations, invented evidence, undisclosed generation of scholarly content, or compromise of confidential peer-review material, may result in rejection, correction, retraction, or other editorial action.