AI Policy
AI Policy
SESSION supports the responsible and transparent use of artificial intelligence (AI) in scholarly publishing. AI tools must not replace human accountability, editorial judgment, or scholarly integrity.
Authors
- Authors must disclose any material use of AI tools in the manuscript or cover letter, including the tool name and the purpose of use.
- Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, citations, and ethical compliance of all submitted work.
- AI tools must not be listed as authors or co-authors.
- Authors must not use AI to fabricate data, references, results, images, or scholarly claims.
- Confidential, personal, or third-party information must not be uploaded to public AI systems without an appropriate legal and ethical basis.
Editors
- Editors may use AI only for limited administrative or language-support purposes, subject to confidentiality and data-protection requirements.
- Editors must not use AI as a substitute for scholarly assessment, editorial deliberation, or decisions to accept, revise, or reject a manuscript.
- Any material use of AI in editorial work must be transparent and managed in accordance with this policy.
Reviewers
- Reviewers must not use AI tools during peer review.
- Reviewers must not upload, paste, summarize, analyse, evaluate, or otherwise disclose a manuscript, its metadata, or any part of the review process to an AI application.
- Review comments and recommendations must be prepared solely by the reviewer.
Compliance
Failure to comply with this policy may lead to editorial investigation and proportionate action, including revision requests, rejection, correction, retraction, or notification of relevant institutions where appropriate.
This policy is reviewed periodically to remain aligned with ethical standards and applicable regulations.
