Artificial Intelligence Policy

The Artificial Intelligence Policy, prepared in light of developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and practices in scholarly publishing, sets out the editorial and ethical principles that authors, reviewers, and editors should follow when using such technologies.

The following sources have been considered in the preparation of the AI policy:

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) - Authorship and AI tools; International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) - Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Assisted Technology; World Association of Medical Editors  (WAME) Chatbots, Generative AI, and Scholarly Manuscripts

AI-assisted technologies (such as large language models [LLMs], chatbots, or image generators) can develop and produce a wide variety of content, including text, images, audio, and synthetic data. When used ethically and safely, these capabilities can increase productivity and foster innovation, but when used without human guidance, they pose risks such as inaccurate and biased results, omissions and errors in citations, deficiencies in protecting privacy and intellectual property rights, and potential violations of authors' and publishers' rights.

RumeliDE adopts the following core principles to avoid these risks in the use of AI: 

• Details of any AI used in the production of content (including but not limited to text, figures, images, and code) must be declared and clearly explained in the appropriate section of the paper (as an acknowledgement and/or in the methods section).
• No AI tool may be listed as an author in any scientific paper.
• Authors are responsible for the accuracy, completeness, and originality of their work, even if AI is used in any way; they are responsible for the proper referencing and attribution of others' ideas, data, words, or other materials.
• Reviewers and editors must not upload submitted work, in whole or in part, to any generative AI application.

In the editorial processes of RumeliDE publications, tools are available to assist editors in identifying AI-generated content.

On the other hand, it is common to use AI tools that provide suggestions for improving and enhancing readability, language, and grammar, and such AI tools can be used in RumeliDE publications under the supervision of editors and authors.