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Dear Librarians,
As Vice President of Publishing Ethics & Research Integrity, I am
committed to ensuring that the research IGI Global Scientific Publishing
publishes is accurate, transparent, responsibly produced, and aligned
with international ethical guidelines. This includes protecting our
research from AI misuse.
Recently, we have seen an alarming trend across the industry where AI is
used to completely generate manuscripts. IGI Global Scientific
Publishing has a strict policy on how AI can and cannot be used to support
authors in writing manuscripts.
In light of the recent upsurge of AI-generated manuscripts, we are taking
active steps to ensure that our manuscripts adhere to AI policies.
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IGI Global
Scientific Publishing AI Policy
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Use in Writing
IGI Global Scientific Publishing allows limited use of AI tools to
support authors writing processes. However, as AI can produce incorrect,
repetitive, or biased output, authors must provide a level of oversight
and control in its usage and must carefully review and edit the content
generated. Authors are ultimately accountable for the contents of the
work. Authors
may use AI tools to:
- Support the analysis of data during the
research process.
- Improve the readability of the paper.
Authors choosing to use
AI tools in the research and writing process must also disclose the tool
and its usage by providing a written statement in the manuscript.
No AI tool will be credited with authorship and authors should not list
or cite any AI as an author. This is because only humans have the ability
to accept the responsibilities and accountability for the work, such as
confirming its accuracy and integrity, of which AI cannot take
responsibility.
Use in Figures and Images
Artificial Intelligence (AI) use in image and video creation can
result in legal copyright and research integrity issues. As such, IGI
Global Scientific Publishing does not permit the use of AI-generated
images or videos in its publications. IGI Global Scientific Publishing
also does not permit the use of AI to manipulate, augment,
remove/conceal, introduce, etc. a feature within an image or figure.
Included within this policy are videos, animation, illustrations,
photographs, drawings, and other 2D and 3D visual representations. Items
such as tables, graphs, etc. which do not use images and are text-based
are exempt.
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AI Disclosure Statements
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If AI was used to
support in any way with the development of the chapter, whether in the
research, grammar, formatting, etc., authors must disclose its use via an
AI disclosure statement at the bottom of the manuscript, above the
reference list.
IGI Global Scientific Publishing advises its authors to use the GAIDeT Declaration Generator (beta version) for assistance generating an AI
disclosure statement. Each disclosure statement must include the type of
AI that was used and how it was used. Authors may also provide a
statement that declares no AI was used to assist with the chapter.
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Extensive Integrity Checks
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The Publishing Ethics
& Research Integrity Team perform integrity checks on each manuscript
prior to its publication. These checks consist of a variety of manual and
automatic tools (including iThenticate and STM Integrity Hub) that look
for markers of extensive AI generated text and figures.
The reference lists in every manuscript are also checked by the
Publishing Ethics & Research Integrity Team prior to publication. Any
reference lists that have references that cannot be verified and/or are
suspected to contain hallucinated references are removed from publication
consideration and the editor and author are notified.
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AI Detection Tools
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IGI Global Scientific
Publishing does not rely on AI detection tools to inform whether a manuscript
is AI generated due to the high instances of false negatives and false
positives. We rely on our expertise in identifying common AI markers in
conjunction with automatic checking tools that also look to pinpoint
markers including tortured phrases.
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We affirm that while AI
tools may support aspects of the research and writing process, they must
never replace the intellectual responsibility, originality, and
accountability of human authorship. At IGI Global Scientific Publishing,
we will continue to actively reject completely AI-generated content in
order to preserve the integrity of the scholarly record.
For questions or to report a significant ethical concern, please contact
me at mwagner@igi-global.com.
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