Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence

The editorial board supports innovative technologies, including the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the preparation of scholarly publications. At the same time, the journal emphasizes the need to comply with the principles of academic integrity, transparency, accountability, and responsible authorship when using AI-based tools.

Authors are required to clearly disclose in the manuscript where and how artificial intelligence tools were used, including, but not limited to, text generation, data analysis, preparation of illustrations, language editing, technical formatting, or other research-related tasks. Manuscripts entirely generated by artificial intelligence without a substantial intellectual contribution by the authors to the scientific content, methodology, interpretation, and conclusions are not accepted for publication.

Authors bear full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, integrity, reliability, and scholarly quality of submitted materials, even if certain parts of the work were prepared with the assistance of AI tools. The use of AI does not exempt authors from responsibility for verifying facts, references, data, arguments, conclusions, and the overall academic validity of the manuscript.

The editorial board may use AI tools to support plagiarism screening, text processing, technical editing, fact-checking, and other auxiliary aspects of the editorial workflow. However, any final decision concerning the acceptance, revision, rejection, correction, or retraction of a manuscript remains exclusively within the responsibility of editors and reviewers and cannot be determined solely by outputs generated by AI tools.

The use of AI must not infringe copyright, violate confidentiality, distort research data, manipulate results, or mislead readers regarding the origin of the text, data, images, or research findings. Concealing the use of AI tools or presenting AI-generated content as the author’s own original intellectual contribution is prohibited.

Authors, reviewers, and editors are responsible for complying with this policy. If violations are identified, the editorial board may request corrections, reject the manuscript, or retract the published article in accordance with the journal’s editorial policy and publication ethics procedures.