JEMPI regulates the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to protect academic integrity, confidentiality, transparency, and human accountability in scholarly publishing. This policy applies to authors, editors, and peer reviewers and is aligned with the 2026 Technical Guidelines for Scientific Journal Accreditation.

1. AI Cannot Be an Author

AI systems, chatbots, large language models, and other automated tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors because they cannot assume responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, originality, and accountability required of an author.

2. Use of AI by Authors

Authors may use AI-assisted tools responsibly, but substantive use must be disclosed when AI contributes to text generation, literature synthesis, coding, data analysis, image generation, translation that materially shapes scholarly content, or other substantive research or writing tasks.

• Authors remain fully responsible for every part of the submitted manuscript, including accuracy, originality, citations, interpretation, bias, data integrity, and compliance with research ethics.
• AI-generated claims, quotations, references, data, and interpretations must be independently verified.
• AI must not be used to fabricate, falsify, manipulate, or misrepresent data, images, evidence, citations, participants, or research findings.
• When AI forms part of the research method, the manuscript must describe the tool or model, its purpose, relevant version or access date where appropriate, procedures, validation steps, and important limitations.
• Routine spelling, grammar, reference-formatting, or basic language-editing tools do not normally require disclosure unless they generate or materially alter scholarly content.

3. AI Disclosure Statement for Authors

When substantive AI use occurs, authors must include a disclosure in the manuscript. A suitable statement is:

“During the preparation of this manuscript, the author(s) used [name and version of AI tool] for [purpose]. The author(s) reviewed, verified, and edited the output and take full responsibility for the content of the publication.”

If no generative AI or AI-assisted tool was used substantively, no AI-use declaration is required unless requested by the editor.

4. Use of AI by Editors

Editors must preserve manuscript confidentiality and remain personally responsible for editorial assessment and decision-making. Editors must not upload confidential manuscripts, reviewer reports, author identities, or unpublished research data to public or third-party AI systems when confidentiality and data use cannot be assured.

• AI must not make, determine, or replace editorial decisions.
• AI must not be used to generate an acceptance or rejection decision in place of editorial judgment.
• Where an institutionally approved and secure AI-enabled tool is used for limited administrative support, the editor remains fully responsible for the output and must ensure that confidentiality, privacy, and research integrity are protected.

5. Prohibition of AI Use by Peer Reviewers

Peer reviewers are prohibited from using generative AI or AI-assisted systems to conduct, draft, summarize, evaluate, or substitute any part of the peer-review process. Reviewers must not upload submitted manuscripts, manuscript excerpts, figures, tables, data, reviewer forms, or other confidential review material to AI systems.

The peer-review report must reflect the reviewer's own scholarly judgment, expertise, and critical assessment. If a reviewer cannot complete the review without AI assistance, the reviewer should decline the assignment or contact the editor.

6. Non-Disclosure, Misuse, and Editorial Action

Undisclosed, deceptive, fabricated, confidentiality-compromising, or otherwise improper AI use may result in a request for clarification or revision, rejection of the manuscript, termination of a review assignment, correction, expression of concern, retraction, or other appropriate editorial action depending on the stage and seriousness of the case.