AI Policy

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Publishing

Jurnal YADIM: International Journal of Islam and Contemporary Affairs recognize the growing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI technologies in research and scholarly publishing. While AI technologies may support efficiency and productivity in manuscript preparation and research activities, their use must comply with the principles of research integrity, transparency, accountability, academic responsibility, and publication ethics. This policy should be read together with the Journal’s Publication Ethics Policy, Author Guidelines, Copyright Policy, Open Access Policy, and Peer Review Policy.

AI technologies may be used for language editing, proofreading, grammar correction, formatting, translation, readability enhancement, and reference management. However, AI must function only as a supportive tool and must not replace human intellectual contribution, critical thinking, scholarly judgment, or academic responsibility. The development of research questions, theoretical frameworks, research design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, discussion, and conclusions remains the responsibility of the authors.

Authors retain full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, validity, integrity, and ethical compliance of all submitted content. AI-generated outputs must be critically reviewed and verified before inclusion in a manuscript. AI technologies must not be used to fabricate data, manipulate findings, generate fictitious references, produce misleading content, or replace meaningful scholarly contribution.

Any substantive use of AI technologies in manuscript preparation or research activities must be disclosed within the manuscript. Authors should identify the AI tool used, its purpose, and the extent of its use. Disclosure may be included in the Methods section, Acknowledgements section, or a dedicated statement entitled “Declaration of AI and AI-Assisted Technologies in the Writing Process.” The Journal distinguishes between AI-assisted writing and AI-assisted research. Where AI is used in research design, coding, data processing, statistical analysis, modelling, machine learning, interpretation of findings, or generation of research outputs, sufficient methodological information must be provided to ensure transparency, reproducibility, and independent evaluation.

Authors must ensure that the use of AI technologies complies with all applicable legal, ethical, institutional, and regulatory requirements. Confidential, proprietary, unpublished, personal, or sensitive information must not be uploaded to third-party AI platforms without appropriate authorization and safeguards. Authors are also responsible for compliance with copyright, intellectual property, confidentiality, privacy, and data protection requirements.

AI systems cannot be listed as authors or co-authors because they cannot assume responsibility, accountability, or authorship obligations. Authorship is restricted to individuals who meet the Journal’s authorship criteria and who can take public responsibility for the published work.

AI-generated images, figures, graphical abstracts, illustrations, videos, and other multimedia materials must be clearly identified and appropriately disclosed. Authors remain fully responsible for the originality, legality, accuracy, and ethical use of such materials.

Editors and peer reviewers must maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts and all related materials. Unpublished manuscripts, review reports, datasets, images, and confidential information must not be uploaded to AI systems. Editors may use AI only for limited administrative purposes, while reviewers may use AI solely for language refinement of review reports. Editorial decisions and peer-review assessments must remain the product of independent human judgment.

The Journal reserves the right to screen submissions using plagiarism-detection, similarity-detection, and AI-content verification tools, including Turnitin or equivalent technologies. Undisclosed AI use, fabricated content, fictitious references, manipulated data, or other forms of research misconduct may result in editorial investigation and corrective actions, including manuscript rejection, corrections, expressions of concern, article withdrawal, or retraction.

This policy is informed by internationally recognized publication ethics standards, including guidance issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and will be periodically reviewed to reflect developments in AI technologies, scholarly publishing, and research integrity.

Example Declaration of AI and AI-Assisted Technologies: "During the preparation of this manuscript, the authors used ChatGPT (OpenAI) solely for language editing and grammar refinement. All AI-generated output was thoroughly reviewed and edited by the authors, who take full responsibility for the content of the manuscript".

The above statement is provided as an example only. Authors should modify the declaration as appropriate to reflect the actual use of AI technologies.

Further guidance on AI disclosure and reporting requirements may be found in the Journal’s Author Guidelines.

By submitting, reviewing, editing, or publishing work in the Journal, all participants agree to uphold the responsible, transparent, ethical, and accountable use of AI technologies while maintaining the highest standards of academic excellence and research integrity.