Generative AI Policy

ISJOUST establishes this Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) Policy as part of its commitment to maintaining academic integrity, originality, and the quality of scholarly publications. The use of AI-based tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and similar technologies is permitted only to a limited extent, including for language improvement, grammar correction, stylistic enhancement, and the preparation of preliminary summaries, provided that such assistance does not substitute the authors’ own intellectual work and scholarly contribution.

Nevertheless, the use of generative AI for creating scientific content, formulating academic or legal analyses, developing scholarly arguments, generating citations or references, fabricating data or research findings, manipulating results, or producing unjustifiable text is strictly prohibited. Any violation of these principles may lead to manuscript rejection or article retraction. Authors who utilize AI tools for technical or linguistic purposes must clearly disclose such usage in the Acknowledgement or Author’s Note section using an appropriate statement. Failure to provide this disclosure will be regarded as a breach of publication ethics.

Authors remain fully accountable for the originality of their manuscripts, the reliability and authenticity of data and references, the validity of scientific analyses, and compliance with ethical publication standards. AI technologies cannot be recognized as authors or co-contributors in any published work. In addition, reviewers and editors are not permitted to upload manuscripts to public AI platforms during the peer-review process in order to preserve confidentiality. AI tools may only be used for limited purposes such as language evaluation or readability assessment without exposing manuscript content to public systems.

To uphold adherence to this policy, ISJOUST may utilize AI-detection systems as part of the manuscript evaluation process. Any confirmed violation may result in sanctions, including manuscript rejection, article withdrawal, or temporary to permanent restrictions on future submissions.