AI Usage Policy
The Jurnal Wacana Kinerja (JWK) AI Usage Policy recognizes the potential benefits of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) and AI-assisted technologies in supporting academic research and scholarly communication. However, the utilization of such technologies must strictly uphold the principles of transparency, confidentiality, originality, accountability, and research integrity. AI must not replace human intellectual responsibility, scholarly judgment, critical analysis, or editorial decision-making. This policy applies to authors, editors, and peer reviewers involved in the publication process of Jurnal Wacana Kinerja.
AI Usage by Authors
- Responsible Support: Authors may use generative AI or AI-assisted technologies responsibly to support limited aspects of manuscript preparation, such as improving language, readability, translation, text organization, or other technical assistance.
- No Substitution for Analysis: AI-generated outputs must not replace the analysis, interpretation, argumentation, conclusions, or substantive scholarly contributions that should be performed by the authors.
- Full Responsibility: Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, citations, and the entire content of the submitted manuscript, including any sections generated or improved with AI assistance.
- Authorship Restrictions: Generative AI or AI-assisted technologies cannot be listed as an author or co-author, as authorship carries responsibilities and accountability that only humans can fulfill.
- Verification Duty: Authors are required to re-verify all information, references, citations, interpretations, or other AI-generated outputs, ensuring that the use of such technology does not violate copyrights, confidentiality, privacy, or third-party rights.
- Transparent Disclosure: Authors who use generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in preparing their manuscripts must disclose its use transparently.
- Disclosure Requirements: This disclosure must at least include the name of the tool or service used and briefly explain the purpose and form of its use. This statement must be integrated into the Ethics Statement (template available on the JWK website) and uploaded concurrently during article submission.
AI Usage by Editors
- Confidentiality Maintenance: Editors are required to maintain the confidentiality of all submitted manuscripts and their associated editorial communications.
- No Unauthorized Uploads: Editors are prohibited from uploading unpublished manuscripts, manuscript sections, supplementary files, author information, peer review reports, editorial correspondence, or other confidential materials into publicly accessible generative AI systems.
- No Substitution for Judgment: Generative AI or AI-assisted technologies must not be used to replace the editor's scholarly judgment in evaluating manuscripts, determining academic significance, assessing peer review reports, or making editorial decisions.
- Human Responsibility: Decisions to reject, request revisions, or accept a manuscript must remain the responsibility of human editors. Editors bear full responsibility for every editorial decision made by the journal.
- Administrative Exceptions: If approved AI-assisted technologies are used solely for administrative, technical, or language support purposes, their use must not compromise manuscript confidentiality, data protection, intellectual property rights, or editorial independence.
- No Autonomous Decision-Making: AI cannot be treated as an autonomous decision-maker in the editorial process.
AI Usage by Peer Reviewers
- Strict Prohibition: Peer Reviewers of Jurnal Wacana Kinerja are strictly prohibited from using generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in the peer review process.
- No Data Uploads: Reviewers are not allowed to upload manuscripts, manuscript sections, tables, figures, supplementary materials, review forms, or any other confidential information related to the manuscript into AI applications.
- No Automated Analysis: Reviewers are also prohibited from using AI to analyze or summarize manuscripts, evaluate their scientific or academic quality, identify strengths and weaknesses, draft recommendations, or generate review comments.
- Expertise-Based Review: The peer review process must be based on the expert judgment and intellectual responsibility of the Reviewers appointed by the journal.
Accountability and Policy Violations
- No Transfer of Liability: The use of AI does not diminish or transfer the responsibility of authors, editors, or peer reviewers. All parties remain accountable for originality, accuracy, confidentiality, ethical compliance, copyright adherence, and the integrity of the scholarly record.
- Misconduct Investigation: Undisclosed, misleading, inappropriate, or unethical use of AI contrary to publication ethics may be investigated as an alleged breach of publication ethics.
- Sanctions and Actions: Violations may result in manuscript rejection, termination of the editorial process, manuscript withdrawal, correction or retraction of published articles, or other editorial actions in accordance with the publication ethics policy of Jurnal Wacana Kinerja.
- Policy Updates: Jurnal Wacana Kinerja may update this policy to keep pace with advancements in generative AI technology, scholarly publishing standards, research integrity guidelines, and applicable scientific journal accreditation regulations.
