Many people are worried by the use of AI in academic papers. Indeed, the practice has been described as “contaminating” scholarly literature.
Generative AI has taken the world by storm over the last few years, and the world of scholarly communications has not been immune to this. Most discussions in this area address how we can integrate these tools into our workflows, concerns about how researchers and students might misuse the technology or the unauthorized use of copyrighted work.
Revolutionary advances in AI have brought us to a transformative moment for science. AI is accelerating scientific discoveries and analyses. At the same time, its tools and processes challenge core norms and values in the conduct of science, including accountability, transparency, replicability, and human responsibility.
APA publishes high-quality research that undergoes a rigorous and ethical peer review process. Journal policies for authors are provided for transparency and clarity, including ethical expectations, AI guidance, and reuse.
Springer Nature is monitoring ongoing developments in this area closely and will review (and update) these policies as appropriate.
AI use must be declared and clearly explained in publications such as research papers, just as we expect scholars to do with other software, tools and methodologies.
The use of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in an article (including but not limited to text, figures, images, and code) shall be disclosed in the acknowledgments section of any article submitted to an IEEE publication.
The submission of content created by generative AI is discouraged, unless it is part of formal research design or methods. Examples of content creation include writing the manuscript text, generating other content in the manuscript, as well as using the AI to generate ideas that are presented in the submitted manuscript. Software that checks for spelling, offers synonyms, makes grammar suggestions or is used to translate your own words into English does not generate new content, and we do not consider it generative AI.
The Journal has adopted the following policies, as specified by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in preparation of material to be submitted for publication in the Journal.
This policy aims to provide greater transparency and guidance to authors, readers, reviewers, editors in relation to generative AI and AI-assisted technologies. Elsevier will monitor this development and will adjust or refine this policy when appropriate. Please note the policy only refers to the writing process, and not to the use of AI tools to analyze and draw insights from data as part of the research process.
