Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Use of artificial intelligence (AI) by article authors, reviewers and editorial board

The Editorial Board acknowledges the rapid development of artificial intelligence technologies and understands their potential benefits in various areas, including scientific research and publishing. We recognize that AI has the ability to process large amounts of data, identify patterns, and automate routine tasks, which has the potential to accelerate scientific progress.

However, despite our understanding of the benefits of AI, our journal's editorial policy remains strict regarding its use at all stages of publication. The use of AI is strictly prohibited for authors, reviewers, and members of the editorial board.

This decision is based on a number of fundamental considerations that we believe are paramount to maintaining high standards of scientific publication:

• Preserving the author's originality and intellectual contribution: Research articles should reflect the original thoughts, analysis, and interpretation of researchers. The use of AI in writing articles may lead to a decrease in the author's contribution and a blurring of personal responsibility for the presented results.
• Ensuring depth and critical thinking in peer review: The peer review process requires a deep understanding of the subject area, a critical assessment of methodology and results, and the ability to engage in reasoned dialogue. We are concerned that the use of AI by reviewers may result in perfunctory and superficial assessments that miss important nuances of the research.
• Maintaining collegiality and expert judgment in the editorial process: Publication decisions are made collectively by editorial board members based on their expert knowledge and in-depth discussion. Introducing AI into this process may undermine the principle of expert judgment and result in decisions being made based on algorithmic assessments that may lack the necessary depth and contextualization.
• Preventing plagiarism and misconduct: Using AI for text generation or data analysis increases the risk of unintentional or intentional plagiarism and other forms of scientific misconduct that are difficult to detect by automated means.
• Maintaining ethical standards of scientific publication: We believe that scientific publication is the result of the intellectual work and personal responsibility of researchers, reviewers and editors. The use of AI may undermine these fundamental ethical principles.

We believe that at this stage of AI technology development, the potential risks associated with its use in the scientific publication process outweigh the potential benefits. Our primary goal is to maintain high standards of quality, originality and ethics in scientific publications, and we currently see strict restrictions on the use of AI as a necessary measure to achieve this goal. We will continue to monitor the development of AI technologies and will review our policy in the future if there is compelling evidence that AI can be integrated into the publication process without compromising the above principles.