AI and Generative AI Policy

IJDTDE recognizes that artificial intelligence and generative AI tools may support scholarly writing, coding, data processing, literature organization, language editing, and workflow efficiency. Such tools must be used transparently, responsibly, and without compromising authorship, confidentiality, research integrity, data protection, or copyright compliance.

Authorship

AI tools, chatbots, language models, software agents, and similar systems cannot be listed as authors. Authorship requires human responsibility, accountability, approval of the final manuscript, and the ability to respond to questions about the work.

Author responsibility

Authors are fully responsible for all submitted content, including text, data, code, equations, figures, tables, references, conclusions, and any material produced or assisted by AI tools. Authors must verify the accuracy, originality, legality, and integrity of all AI-assisted output before submission.

Disclosure

Authors must disclose the use of AI or AI-assisted tools when such tools were used to generate, substantially revise, translate, summarize, analyze, code, or create content that materially influenced the manuscript. Routine spelling, grammar, formatting, or reference-management assistance does not normally require disclosure unless it materially affects the scholarly content.

Suggested disclosure wording: “The authors used [tool name/version] to assist with [specific purpose, e.g., language editing, code debugging, summary of author-provided notes]. The authors reviewed and verified the output and take full responsibility for the content of the manuscript.”

Prohibited uses

• Using AI to fabricate data, results, citations, peer-review reports, reviewer identities, or experimental evidence.
• Submitting AI-generated text, images, tables, code, or references without human verification and appropriate disclosure.
• Using AI tools in a way that violates confidentiality, privacy, copyright, data protection, or third-party rights.
• Uploading confidential manuscripts, reviewer reports, or editorial correspondence into public AI systems without authorization.

Reviewers and editors

Reviewers and editors must treat submitted manuscripts and review materials as confidential. They must not upload manuscript files, unpublished data, figures, reviewer comments, or editorial correspondence to public or non-approved AI systems. If AI assistance is used in any permitted editorial context, the human reviewer or editor remains fully responsible for the assessment and final wording.