Política de uso de IA

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use Policy for Academic Journals

Methodological Note from the Journal: This proposal was created using Copilot with the following initial prompt: "'Guía para uso y reporte de inteligencia artificial en revistas científico-académicas' (2024 Penabad-Camacho, Morera-Castro, et. al.) and emphasize that the use of AI must be declared to any degree." It was supervised and modified by the journal's management and will be implemented starting with the 2027 issues. Due to the constant evolution of these tools, this policy may be modified according to emerging needs.

 

1. Purpose

To establish clear, ethical, and transparent guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the creation, evaluation, and publication of scientific content, ensuring academic integrity, reproducibility, and authorial responsibility.

 

2. General Principles

The use of AI in academic production must be governed by the following principles:

• Total Transparency: Any use of AI must be explicitly declared, regardless of its magnitude.
• Human Responsibility: Authors are entirely responsible for the final content.
• Academic Integrity: AI does not replace intellectual authorship or scientific originality.
• Traceability: The use of AI must be verifiably documented.

 

3. Definition of AI Use

The use of AI is considered to be any intervention by automated tools capable of generating, analyzing, translating, summarizing, editing, or transforming text, data, images, or code, including (but not limited to):

• Text generation (e.g., drafting, rephrasing).
• Machine translation.
• Literature summarization.
• Assisted data analysis.
• Generation of images, graphs, or tables.

 

4. Mandatory Declaration of AI Use

4.1 General Rule The use of AI must always be declared, without exception, even when:

• It has been used partially or minimally.
• It has been used solely for copyediting or grammar correction.
• It has been employed in preliminary stages (brainstorming, organization, research).

4.2 Format of Declaration Authors must include a specific section at the end of the manuscript titled "Declaration of Artificial Intelligence Use," which must contain:

• Name of the tool(s) used.
• Type of use (e.g., drafting, editing, analysis).
• Scope of use.
• Level of human intervention in the review and validation process.

Example: "We utilized [tool name] to assist with linguistic editing and the initial organization of the manuscript. The content was entirely reviewed, validated, and corrected by the authors."

If no AI tools were used, this section will be omitted from the final published version of the text.

 

5. Authorship and Responsibility

• AI tools cannot be recognized as authors.
• Authorship implies intellectual responsibility, which is exclusively human.
• Authors are solely responsible for the accuracy of the information, the absence of plagiarism or bias, and the veracity of citations and data.

 

6. Permitted Uses

The use of AI is permitted in the following cases, provided it is declared:

• Style and grammar correction.
• Translation.
• Support in text structuring.
• Preliminary exploration of topics.
• Data analysis (subject to human validation).

 

7. Non-Permitted Uses

The following practices are strictly prohibited:

• Presenting AI-generated content as completely original without declaration.
• Using AI to fabricate non-existent data, results, or citations.
• Generating complete manuscripts without critical human supervision.
• Ethically or scientifically manipulating information through the use of AI.

 

8. Peer Review and AI

• Reviewers must declare if they utilized AI during the evaluation of a manuscript.
• Confidential manuscript content must not be inputted into AI tools that do not guarantee data privacy.
• The final editorial decision must always be based on human judgment.

 

9. Non-Compliance

Failure to adhere to this policy may result in:

• Rejection of the manuscript.
• Retraction of the published article.
• Notification to affiliated institutions.
• Restriction from future publication in the journal.

 

10. Policy Updates

Given the constant evolution of technology, this policy will be reviewed and updated periodically.

 

11. Final Statement

The implementation of AI as a support tool is not prohibited, but its undeclared use constitutes a severe breach of academic ethics. Transparency regarding any degree of technological intervention is mandatory and fundamental to preserving scientific trust.