Guidelines to Authors
Allowed Applications of AI in RBGN
AI, when properly disclosed, can support a range of editorial activities, including:
- Enhancing Readability and Proofreading: Improving clarity, coherence, language, and translation quality.
- Idea Development and Research Design: Assisting in exploring research questions and methodologies.
- Interactive Online Search: Leveraging LLM-enhanced search engines for more efficient literature reviews.
- Coding Assistance: Supporting data analysis and programming tasks while adhering to RBGN’s replicability standards.
- Formatting and Reference Standardization: Ensuring compliance with journal submission guidelines.
- Data Processing: Facilitating data handling while adhering to RBGN’s replicability standards. Scripts or step-by-step procedures must be detailed in the Methods section and included with other open data documents.
Restrictions on AI Use in RBGN
- AI cannot support or replace a range of editorial activities, detailed in our guidelines to Editors and reviewers, including Human Oversight: AI must not replace human judgment or decision-making. All AI-generated outputs must be reviewed, curated, and validated by humans to prevent copyright infringement.
- Research Idea creation: AI cannot be used to formulate research questions and methodologies.
- Image Creation and Editing: AI cannot be used to generate or modify images.
- Authorship: AI and AI-assisted tools are not eligible for authorship and cannot be listed as authors or co-authors.
Guidelines to Reviewers and Editors
Reviewers and editors are strictly prohibited from using AI tools, including but not limited to ChatGPT, to generate review reports or analyze submitted manuscripts. Reviewers and Editors must not upload a submitted manuscript or any part of it into generative AI tools, as this could compromise the confidentiality and proprietary rights of the authors. Engaging in these actions may have legal repercussions and have a strong impact on academic careers.
While the use of AI to enhance the clarity and quality of written feedback in peer review reports is permitted, this must be transparently disclosed when submitting the peer review report to the handling editor. For editors, all editorial decisions must involve human oversight to ensure fairness, accuracy, and adherence to ethical standards.
AI cannot replace human judgment or decision-making in editorial tasks, and any support output generated by AI tools must be reviewed, curated, and validated by human editors to ensure their reliability and appropriateness. These guidelines are in place to preserve the highest ethical standards in the evaluation process, safeguarding trust and credibility in the editorial and peer review processes.
For more details and ethical RBGN AI policy, visit: https://rbgn.fecap.br/RBGN/artificialintelligencepolicy