ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) POLICY

In order to maintain high standards of academic integrity and good research practices, in compliance with international ethics COPE recommendations, JFME established his own policy on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Contributors to the journal who use an artificial intelligence (AI) tool/service to directly generate any part of the manuscript text must provide transparent, detailed and clear information; otherwise it will be considered academic misconduct. Correctly declaring the use of these AI tools supports transparency and trust between editorial partners: authors, reviewers, editors and readers.

The journal allows the use of an AI tool/service for text correction, especially for linguistic compliance for authors who are not native English speakers, text beautification and automatic sorting of references, but does not recommend the use of AI in data analysis and interpretation, opinion and reflection development and conclusions, and it cannot replace an author.

If any part of the manuscript was written using artificial intelligence, this should be described in the Methodology section, for example: “In developing this work, the authors used [name of specific artificial intelligence tool] for [purpose of use: e.g., literary research/text beautification, etc.]. After using this AI tool, the authors reviewed and edited the content and take responsibility for the content of the work.”

Thus, the use of AI without proper declaration of this working tool, may lead to the consideration of a violation of academic conduct through: fabricated content, plagiarism, manipulated citations or incorrect and inconsistent references, and proven false statements. The same type of policy, but much stricter, applies to editors, they cannot use artificial intelligence to generate correction responses for peer-reviewed works.

Violation of this policy may lead to sanctions.