Policy on the Use of AI

This policy applies to all manuscripts submitted to the Scientific Collaborative Online Publishing Universal Academy (SCOPUA). It aims to ensure transparency, research integrity, and responsible use of generative AI and AI-assisted tools in the preparation of scholarly work. Generative AI and AI-assisted tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors. All listed authors must ensure that the work is original, lawfully prepared, and does not infringe third-party rights. Generative AI or AI-assisted tools must not be used to create or modify figures, images, or artwork in submitted manuscripts.

Authors may use generative AI and AI-assisted tools to support tasks such as:

  • Literature structuring and summarization
  • Improving language clarity and readability
  • Organizing content

However

  • AI tools must not replace human critical thinking or expertise.
  • Authors remain fully responsible and accountable for the accuracy, completeness, impartiality, and originality of the manuscript.

Authors must

  • Check AI outputs for factual errors, bias, and fabricated references.
  • Thoroughly edit and adapt any AI-generated text so it reflects their own analysis and ideas.
  • Review the terms and conditions of the tool to ensure that:
    • The privacy and confidentiality of data (including unpublished manuscripts and any personal data) are protected.
    • Only limited rights are granted to the tool (for service provision), and not broader rights such as using the content to train models.
    • Tool terms do not restrict future publication of the work in SCOPUA.
  • Avoid uploading content that may infringe their own, third-party, or SCOPUA’s intellectual property rights.

Authors must disclose any significant use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools in writing the manuscript. Use of AI tools in data analysis or research methods should be described in the Methods section (or sub-section), with sufficient detail for reproducibility. No disclosure is needed for standard spelling and grammar checkers or reference managers used only for organizing and formatting references. A “Declaration of AI Use” must be added at the end of the manuscript.

Note:

  • The use of AI tools should not exceed the 20% of content.
  • Authors are requested not to use Generative AI tools when preparing a book proposal, as the purpose of the proposal is to allow you to describe your planned book briefly and in your own words.
  • The template for the "Declaration of AI Use" is provided in Author Declarations.