Use of Artificial Intelligence and Automated Tools
Use of Artificial Intelligence and Automated Tools
The Revista Internacional Educon acknowledges the growing use of automated tools, including generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as large language models (LLMs), and sets out the following policy for authors, reviewers and editors. Use of these tools never removes human responsibility and oversight.
For authors
Disclosure. Authors must disclose the use of generative AI in preparing their work, naming the tool and the purpose, whenever that use goes beyond straightforward language correction, copy-editing and formatting. The disclosure belongs in the manuscript itself, preferably in the acknowledgements, a methodological note or an equivalent statement.
Responsibility. Authors are fully responsible for verifying the validity, accuracy and integrity of any output produced by automated tools used in the research or in preparing the manuscript, and answer for the content in its entirety.
Authorship. AI tools cannot be credited as authors or co-authors, because they cannot take responsibility for the work.
Citation. Generative AI cannot be cited as a source. Claims, data and references must point to verifiable, legitimate sources.
For reviewers and editors
Confidentiality and prohibition. Reviewers and editors must not use generative AI to draft their reports or editorial decisions. Submitting a manuscript, in whole or in part, to generative AI tools breaches the duty of confidentiality set out in the Peer Review Process and is prohibited. Relying on such tools to produce reviews also carries the risk of shallow, generic feedback, bias, inappropriate recommendations and fabricated information, including references that do not exist.
Language editing. Automated tools used solely to revise the language or improve the wording of the reviewer's own report may be acceptable, provided the use is disclosed and no confidential manuscript content is submitted to external services.
Institutional use by the journal
Disclosure. Any routine use of automated tools by the journal or its staff is disclosed. Tools adopted are tested for fitness for purpose beforehand.
Initial screening. At desk review the journal uses Similarity Check, provided by Crossref and operated through iThenticate, as described in the Plagiarism Detection Policy. The resulting report informs the analysis; it never decides on its own.
Undisclosed use
Undisclosed use of generative AI, when identified at any stage of the editorial workflow, is treated as misconduct and investigated under the COPE guidelines and the Statement of Publication Ethics and Best Practice. Depending on severity, it may lead to rejection of the manuscript, retraction of a published article or publication of a corrigendum.
