1. General Principles and Approach

While the journal acknowledges the opportunities offered by artificial intelligence technologies (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, etc.) in research processes (idea generation, language editing, coding support), the preservation of scientific integrity, transparency and ethical standards is taken as a basis.

These principles are binding for authors, editors and reviewers and may be updated in line with technological developments.

2. Guidelines for Authors

2.1. Authorship Status and Responsibility    

    • Authorship: Artificial intelligence tools cannot be recognised as the “author” of a study. AI tools cannot assume the originality, responsibility and legal obligations (copyright, conflict of interest, etc.) required of academic work.

    • Ultimate Responsibility: The accuracy, originality and integrity of the entire work or any part rest entirely with the authors. Authors are obliged to verify the accuracy, impartiality and originality of any content arising from the use of AI tools within allowed limits.

2.2. Allowed Scopes of Usage

Provided that authors transparently declare, they  may utilise AI technologies in the following scopes:

    • Grammar checking, translation, or adaptation of the text to academic standards.

    • Identification of relevant sources during literature reviews (provided that the sources are read and verified by the author).

    • Writing or editing statistical analysis code.

    • Generating ideas and optimising research questions.

2.3. Prohibited Uses

In accordance with international ethical standards, the following uses are prohibited or restricted:

    • Visual Manipulation and Generation: In order to safeguard the integrity of scientific data, the journal does not permit the complete generation of images, figures or scientific data (photographs, graphs, tables, medical images, etc.) used in studies from scratch by artificial intelligence. AI may only be used as an auxiliary tool for writing the code required to visualise existing data.

    • Fabrication of Data: The generation of synthetic data using AI to replace missing data and the presentation of this as real data is considered a serious ethical violation (fabrication).

2.4. Requirement of Disclosure

If an AI tool has been used at any stage of the study, authors are required to:

    • In-text Disclosure: In the relevant section of the work, the name, version, date of access and purpose of use of the tool must be clearly stated.

    • Official Form: At the time of manuscript submission, the “Declaration on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)” form provided by our journal must be completed in full and uploaded to the system.

3. Guidelines for Editors and Reviewers

3.1. Confidentiality and Data Security

Unpublished works are considered confidential. Due to the risk of intellectual property infringement and the unauthorised processing of data by third parties, editors and reviewers must not upload the full texts, abstracts or images of the works they are reviewing to external artificial intelligence platforms.

3.2. Peer Review

Reviewers must not use AI tools while writing their review reports or summarising the article. Reviewers’ opinions must be based entirely on expert judgement and human assessment. AI may only be used to check the grammar of the written report.