Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy

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The AJMS Generative AI Policy requires transparency, human accountability, confidentiality, and research integrity when generative AI or AI-assisted tools are used in manuscript preparation, peer review, editorial assessment, or publication.

1. AI Use by Authors

Authors may use AI-assisted tools for limited support such as language refinement, text organisation, coding assistance, data-visualisation support, or other research-support tasks, but such use must not replace scholarly judgement, verification, interpretation, or responsibility. Authors remain accountable for accuracy, originality, references, permissions, analysis, conclusions, and integrity.

2. AI Authorship Prohibition

AI tools, large language models, chatbots, and other non-human systems must not be listed as authors or co-authors because authorship requires human accountability and responsibility.

3. Disclosure Requirements

Substantive AI use should be disclosed in the manuscript or accompanying declarations, identifying the tool and explaining its purpose sufficiently for editors and readers to understand its contribution. Routine spelling or grammar checking that does not generate substantive content need not be disclosed unless the submission system requires it.

4. Images, Data, References and Research Content

AI must not be used to fabricate, falsify, or misleadingly manipulate data, results, images, references, quotations, or evidence. AI-generated factual claims, references, or quotations must be checked against reliable original sources. Any AI-assisted figure, code, visualisation, or data output must accurately represent the underlying research.

5. AI Use by Reviewers and Editors

Peer review and editorial decisions remain human responsibilities. Reviewers and editors must not delegate substantive judgement to AI systems and must not upload unpublished manuscripts, reviewer reports, author information, or confidential editorial material to AI services where confidentiality cannot be assured.

6. Human Accountability, Confidentiality and Non-Compliance

Use of AI does not transfer responsibility away from authors, reviewers, editors, or journal staff. Potential breaches are assessed under the Publication Ethics and Post-Publication Policy. The journal’s approach is consistent with current ICMJE recommendations on AI in publishing, which emphasise disclosure, human responsibility, and manuscript confidentiality.