1. Purpose of the Policy

This policy ensures that the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies supports academic quality without compromising research integrity, authorship accountability, originality, confidentiality, transparency, data protection, and ethical responsibility. RAIDA supports responsible technological innovation while maintaining strict standards for scholarly contribution, publication ethics, peer-review integrity, and editorial independence.

2. Definition of Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies

Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence systems capable of producing, transforming, summarizing, translating, analyzing, or organizing content based on user prompts. This may include text, images, tables, computer code, statistical interpretation, summaries, references, visual materials, or other forms of academic content. AI-assisted technologies include tools for grammar correction, translation support, reference organization, coding assistance, data processing, and manuscript editing.

3. Use of Generative AI by Authors

Authors may use generative AI or AI-assisted technologies only as supporting tools in manuscript preparation. Acceptable uses may include improving language clarity, grammar, readability, structure, formatting, translation support, coding assistance, preliminary idea organization, and non-substantive editorial refinement.

Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, validity, integrity, ethical compliance, and scholarly quality of all submitted and published content. AI-assisted output must be carefully reviewed, verified, corrected, edited, and approved by the authors before submission.

4. AI Tools Cannot Be Listed as Authors

Generative AI tools, large language models, chatbots, software systems, or any non-human technologies cannot be listed as authors or co-authors. Authorship requires human accountability, responsibility for research integrity, approval of the final manuscript, disclosure of conflicts of interest, response to reviewer comments, and ethical responsibility. Since AI tools cannot assume these responsibilities, they do not meet authorship criteria.

5. Mandatory Disclosure of AI Use

Authors must disclose the use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies when such tools are used beyond basic spelling, grammar, formatting, or reference management. Disclosure is required when AI tools contribute to text generation, translation, summarization, data interpretation support, literature mapping, coding assistance, figure preparation, image generation, or other substantive elements of the manuscript.

8. AI-Generated Images, Figures, and Visual Materials

The use of AI-generated or AI-modified images, figures, graphical abstracts, diagrams, illustrations, or visual materials must be disclosed clearly. Authors must ensure that such materials do not misrepresent data, create false evidence, alter research results, violate copyright, infringe privacy, or mislead readers.

9. Verification of Data, Sources, and References

Authors are responsible for verifying all AI-assisted outputs, including facts, citations, references, quotations, equations, tables, data summaries, statistical interpretations, theoretical claims, and methodological statements. AI-generated references must not be included unless independently verified against reliable bibliographic databases, publisher websites, DOI records, official repositories, or other authoritative sources.

12. Confidentiality and Data Protection

Manuscripts under review are confidential documents. Authors, reviewers, and editors must ensure that the use of AI tools does not violate confidentiality, intellectual property rights, personal data protection, unpublished research ownership, institutional policies, or legal obligations.

13. Editorial Screening and AI-Related Concerns

RAIDA may conduct editorial checks for originality, similarity, citation reliability, image integrity, ethical compliance, data validity, and possible misuse of AI-generated content. The journal does not rely solely on automated AI-detection tools because such tools may produce uncertain or inaccurate results. Editorial assessment considers transparency, coherence, verifiability, ethical compliance, author disclosure, and evidence of fabrication or manipulation.

14. Failure to Disclose or Misuse of AI

Failure to disclose substantial AI use, submission of unverified AI-generated content, fabrication of references or data, misuse of AI-generated images, manipulation of peer review, or violation of confidentiality may result in editorial action. Depending on severity, actions may include clarification request, revision, rejection, correction, expression of concern, retraction, institutional notification, or other measures consistent with publication ethics standards.

15. Author Responsibility Statement

By submitting a manuscript to RAIDA, authors confirm that they are fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, validity, transparency, and ethical compliance of the submitted work. Authors also confirm that any use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies has been properly disclosed, critically reviewed, verified, edited, and approved by all authors before submission.