AI Usage Policy

JPT permits the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies in manuscript preparation and research. AI must not replace the authors’ scientific judgment, critical thinking, interpretation, or original intellectual contribution. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, references, data, analyses, and conclusions of their manuscripts.

 

AI Screening

JPT uses Turnitin’s AI writing detection feature as an editorial screening aid. As a general editorial screening benchmark, submitted manuscripts are normally expected to have an AI Writing Detection score of no more than 25%. A manuscript with a score above 25% may be returned for clarification or revision, withheld from peer review, or rejected based on editorial evaluation. A score at or below 25% does not prevent editorial action when significant ethical or integrity concerns are identified. The 25% benchmark is an internal screening threshold, not an allowance for undisclosed AI use or a measure of manuscript quality.

Turnitin reports are screening tools and are not used as the sole basis for determining plagiarism, inappropriate AI use, misconduct, or manuscript rejection. Editors will assess the relevant passages, sources, context, extent of AI assistance, disclosure, and effect on manuscript integrity. Authors will be given an opportunity to explain relevant findings before an adverse decision based on suspected inappropriate AI use is finalized.

Permitted and Prohibited Use

Authors may use AI to support:

  • language improvement or translation;
  • coding, statistical analysis, modeling, or visualization;
  • data classification or image analysis; and
  • other legitimate research activities that are clearly described.

All AI-assisted outputs must be reviewed and verified by the authors. Permission to use AI does not remove the disclosure requirements described below.

AI must not be used to:

  • fabricate or falsify data, results, references, approvals, permits, or research records;
  • generate experimental evidence that was not produced by the reported research;
  • misleadingly manipulate data, figures, photographs, or images;
  • conceal plagiarism or duplicate publication;
  • manipulate peer review;
  • misrepresent AI-generated content as the authors’ original intellectual contribution; or
  • disclose confidential, unpublished, personal, or restricted information without authorization.

AI-generated or substantially altered images must not be presented as original experimental or observational evidence.

 

Authorship and Disclosure

AI tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors because they cannot take responsibility for the work or fulfill authorship requirements.

Routine spelling, grammar, punctuation, formatting, or reference-management assistance does not require a detailed tool-specific disclosure when it does not substantially generate or modify scholarly content. This exemption includes minor language corrections and purely cosmetic adjustments to tables or figures that do not change data, results, or scientific meaning.

Substantive AI-assisted drafting, rewriting, translation, interpretation, or content generation must be disclosed. Authors must identify the tool and describe its purpose, the extent of its use, and how its outputs were checked.

When AI is used as part of the research methods or data analysis, the Methods section must identify the tool, purpose, relevant inputs or parameters, validation procedure, human verification, and known limitations. Where relevant, authors should also report the tool version and date of use to support reproducibility. Authors must verify all AI-generated references and factual statements before including them in the manuscript.

 

AI Use Declaration

Beginning with the December 2026 issue, all articles published in JPT must include an “AI Use Declaration” in the Declaration section before the References, stating whether AI was used. This requirement applies to all articles in that issue and subsequent issues, regardless of their submission date.

Routine assistance requires only a brief statement. A detailed declaration is required for uses beyond routine language or formatting assistance. When AI forms part of the research methods, the declaration must refer readers to the relevant description in the Methods section.

Authors must select and adapt a statement that accurately reflects their actual use. The following examples may be used:

No AI use. “The authors declare that no AI or AI-assisted technologies were used in conducting the research or preparing this manuscript.”

Routine assistance only. “AI-assisted tools were used only for routine language or formatting assistance. The authors reviewed the final text and take full responsibility for its content.”

Substantive use in manuscript preparation. “During the preparation of this manuscript, the authors used [tool name and version, if available] for [specific purpose]. The authors reviewed and verified the outputs and take full responsibility for the final content.”

Use in research methods or data analysis. “AI-assisted methods were used for [specific purpose], as described in the Methods section. The authors validated the outputs and take full responsibility for the analyses and conclusions.”

If more than one category applies, authors must describe all relevant uses in a single declaration.

 

Editors, Reviewers, and Confidentiality

Editors

Editors must not use generative AI to assess the scientific merit of a submitted manuscript, formulate manuscript-specific editorial recommendations, or make acceptance or rejection decisions. AI detection reports may support screening but must not replace an editor’s assessment of the evidence.

Editors may use AI for general administrative tasks or routine language assistance that does not involve confidential manuscript information or influence scientific decisions. Any permitted use that materially affects communication with authors must be transparently identified in the relevant communication. Editors remain responsible for all editorial actions and decisions.

Reviewers

Reviewers must not use generative AI to analyze or evaluate submitted manuscripts, interpret their findings, or draft, rewrite, or generate peer-review reports. This restriction applies to both public and private AI services.

Reviewers must prepare their assessments themselves and remain responsible for the originality, accuracy, and confidentiality of their reports.

Confidentiality

Editors and reviewers must not upload manuscripts, figures, data, supplementary files, review reports, or editorial correspondence to external AI services without explicit authorization from JPT and appropriate safeguards for confidentiality and data protection.

Any such authorization does not override the restrictions on scientific evaluation and preparation of peer-review reports stated above. AI must not replace independent scientific review or editorial judgment.

Editorial Action

When possible undisclosed or inappropriate AI use is identified, JPT may request clarification, disclosure, revision, supporting documentation, or verification of references and data.

Serious or unresolved concerns may result in suspension of editorial processing, rejection, correction, an Expression of Concern, retraction, or other appropriate action under JPT’s Allegations of Misconduct.

Questions concerning this policy may be submitted to the JPT Editorial Office thorugh email: jpt@agr.unand.ac.id.