AI/GenAI Policy
JATSS Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Use and Disclosure Policy (Update Date: 04/09/2026)
Artificial Intelligence (AI): Refers to computer systems capable of performing tasks that require human intelligence, such as learning, analysis, classification, prediction, decision-making, and similar tasks.
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), on the other hand, refers to Artificial Intelligence/generative artificial intelligence systems capable of generating new content such as text, images, audio, code, or similar content.
JATSS, in accordance with the principles of scientific publication ethics, scientific integrity, transparency, and accountability, attaches importance to the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI), generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), and AI-assisted technologies in the processes of preparing and evaluating manuscripts.
Our journal's policy on the use of artificial intelligence is implemented by taking into account the “Ethical Guidelines on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Research and Publication Activities of Higher Education Institutions” of the Council of Higher Education (YÖK),https://proje.yok.gov.tr/documentFiles/17539645794.Yükseköğretimde%20üretken%20yapay%20zeka%20kullanımı-en.pdf , the “Guidelines for the Responsible and Reliable Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Support Processes” of TÜBİTAK, https://tubitak.gov.tr/sites/default/files/2026-01/UYZ_Rehberi_v04_TR.pdf , and the principles and recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) regarding the use of artificial intelligence https://publicationethics.org/search?query=Committee+on+Publication+Ethics
Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and ethical compliance of the scientific content of the manuscript. The use of artificial intelligence/generative artificial intelligence tools does not eliminate or reduce this responsibility.
Declaration of the Use of Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence
Authors are required to declare clearly, accurately, and transparently any use of AI, GenAI, or AI-assisted technologies at any stage of the preparation of the manuscript to be submitted, the conduct of the research, the evaluation of the data, the writing of the manuscript, or its preparation for publication.
In this context:
1.The “Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI/GenAI) Use Declaration Form” must be completed.
2.The form must be signed separately by all authors of the manuscript.
3.A scanned copy of the form containing the signatures of all authors must be uploaded to the system during the manuscript submission.
4.Whether or not artificial intelligence/generative artificial intelligence has been used, the author(s) must provide a statement regarding this under the heading “Declaration of the Use of Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence” in the Author Information Form at the end of the manuscript.
5.If artificial intelligence/generative artificial intelligence has been used, the name of the AI/GenAI tool used, the purpose of its use, and the scope of its use must be clearly stated in the Author Information Form at the end of the manuscript. The AI/GenAI declaration may be as follows:
During the preparation of this manuscript, [name of AI/GenAI tool] was used for [purpose of use]. The tool was used during [stage/section]. All outputs provided by the AI tool were reviewed and verified by the author(s). The author(s) remain fully responsible for the scientific content, accuracy, originality, and integrity of the work.
Example 1:
During the preparation of this manuscript, ChatGPT (OpenAI) was used to improve the grammar, spelling, clarity, and readability of text created by the authors. The tool was used during the writing stage for language editing purposes. All outputs provided by the AI tool were reviewed and verified by the authors. The authors remain fully responsible for the scientific content, accuracy, originality, and integrity of the work.
Example 2:
Generative AI tools, specifically ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, were used to assist with language editing and portions of the code development. All outputs were reviewed and validated by the authors.
6.If the manuscript is published, this declaration will be publicly accessible to readers in the published version of the manuscript.
7.Authors are responsible for ensuring that the information they provide regarding the use of AI/GenAI is complete, accurate, and truthful.
The declaration of AI/GenAI use does not mean that such use is automatically accepted by JATSS. Whether the use is in compliance with this policy and the relevant publication ethics principles may be examined as part of the editorial evaluation.
Fundamental Principles Regarding the Use of Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence at JATSS
JATSS bases its approach on the responsibility of human authors in the creation of the scientific content of the manuscript and in the fundamental scientific processes of the research.
Prohibited Practices in the Use of Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence or AI/GenAI-Assisted Technologies
1.It is prohibited for AI/GenAI to generate new and substantial ideas, arguments, interpretations, or scientific content in a manner that replaces the author's original scientific contribution.
2.It is prohibited for the introduction, theoretical framework, discussion, conclusion, or other substantive sections of the manuscript to be generated by AI/GenAI without the author's meaningful intellectual contribution.
3.It is prohibited to generate or fabricate research findings, results, or statistical values that were not actually obtained through the use of AI/GenAI.
4.It is prohibited to alter actual research data using AI/GenAI or to manipulate such data in a way that changes the scientific outcome.
5.It is prohibited for AI/GenAI to generate nonexistent articles, books, authors, DOIs, or other academic sources and to use them as if they were genuine sources.
6.Sources that have not been found and read by the author may not be used as references in the manuscript solely on the grounds that they were recommended by AI/GenAI.
7.It is prohibited for final scientific decisions regarding the research question, methodology, analysis, findings, or conclusions to be made by AI/GenAI instead of human researchers.
8.It is prohibited to use information, interpretations, statistics, sources, or other content generated by AI/GenAI as scientific facts without verification.
9.Fabricating or altering data, results, or references is prohibited.
10.It is prohibited to upload personal, sensitive, or identifiable research data belonging to participants to AI/GenAI tools without ensuring appropriate confidentiality and security conditions.
11.It is prohibited to use AI/GenAI instead of actual participants.
12.It is prohibited to upload unpublished manuscripts, research data, confidential research materials, or confidential information belonging to third parties to AI/GenAI tools without ensuring appropriate security conditions.
13.AI/GenAI cannot replace the author's intellectual contribution. It is prohibited for comprehensive/original scientific content concerning the manuscript text to be written by AI/GenAI.
14.It is prohibited to list AI/GenAI tools as an author or co-author in the manuscript.
15.It is prohibited to present the use of AI/GenAI as if it had been carried out by the author or to fail to declare such use in accordance with the requirements of the journal.
16.It is prohibited not to adequately explain, in the Methods section, the use of AI/GenAI employed in data processing, coding, analysis, or other methodological stages of the research.
17.It is prohibited to present visuals generated by AI/GenAI that are not based on actual research data as actual research findings or research materials.
18.It is prohibited to alter or manipulate graphs, tables, figures, or other data visualizations using AI/GenAI in a way that changes the scientific outcome.
19.Reviewers are prohibited from uploading manuscripts or sections of manuscripts sent to them for evaluation purposes to general-purpose AI/GenAI tools.
20.It is prohibited to delegate the evaluation of a manuscript, the preparation of a peer review report, or the making of a peer review decision to AI/GenAI during the peer review process.
21.It is prohibited for decisions such as editorial evaluation, manuscript acceptance, rejection, revision, or ethical evaluation to be made by AI/GenAI.
22.It is prohibited to violate the copyright, intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or other legal rights of third parties through the use of AI/GenAI.
23.It is prohibited for the author to disclaim responsibility for errors, misinformation, fabricated sources, data errors, or ethical violations generated by AI/GenAI on the grounds that the “content was generated by AI/GenAI.”
Permitted Practices in the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence or AI/GenAI-Assisted Technologies
1.AI/GenAI may be used in literature reviews. However, sources must always be verified by the researcher. Accuracy and responsibility belong to the authors.
2.The use of AI/GenAI-assisted coding, programming, modeling, and data analysis tools in the research process is permitted, provided that the researcher's scientific judgment, human oversight, and scientific responsibility are maintained. Researchers may use models they have trained themselves to analyze actual research data. When ready-made AI/GenAI systems or models are used to analyze research data, data confidentiality, privacy, intellectual property, scientific accuracy, and the reliability of the analysis results must be taken into consideration. Personal, sensitive, confidential, or identifiable research data must not be uploaded to AI/GenAI systems without ensuring appropriate data security and privacy conditions. The results of analyses performed or supported by AI/GenAI must be critically evaluated, checked, and verified by the researcher. For example: The author(s) may train a machine learning model using Python on Colab with their own dataset and then analyze actual research data using this model. If AI/GenAI is used as part of the research methodology, the name, version, developer, purpose of use, and role of the tool or model used in the research must be explained in the Methods section. The author(s) are responsible for the accuracy of the final analyses, interpretations, and conclusions.
3.AI/GenAI-assisted language editing tools may be used to improve the grammar, spelling, punctuation, clarity of expression, and readability of an existing manuscript text created by the author(s), provided that they do not generate new scientific content, new ideas, new arguments, new findings, new data, new sources, or new scientific interpretations, and do not alter the scientific meaning of the manuscript. Even in such uses, the author(s) must check all changes made by AI/GenAI and are fully responsible for the final version of the manuscript.
4.AI/GenAI may be used for text labeling. However, it should be taken into consideration that the accuracy of the labeling results depends on the nature, quality, and impartiality of the dataset used to develop and train the AI/GenAI. As in all other processes in which AI/GenAI is used, the responsibility for scientific accuracy and accountability in this process belongs to the user. For example, in an interview study conducted in the social sciences, participants' statements may be classified using AI/GenAI according to categories predetermined by the researcher, such as “unemployment,” “economic problems,” “education,” and “migration.” However, the labels generated by AI/GenAI must be checked by the researcher and necessary corrections must be made. The name, version, developer, purpose of use, and role of the AI/GenAI tool or model used must be explained in the Methods section. The author(s) are responsible for the accuracy of the final analyses, interpretations, and conclusions.
5.A reviewer may use AI/GenAI to improve the language of a peer review report they have prepared themselves. However, they must not have the report written directly by AI/GenAI.
Verification of Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence Outputs and Responsibility
Content generated, suggested, or provided by AI/GenAI tools and permitted above should not be included in the manuscript without being independently verified by the authors. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and authenticity of the information provided by AI/GenAI and whether it supports the relevant claims, the originality of the manuscript, the accuracy and reliability of the scientific content, and the published final text as a whole. The scientific and intellectual responsibility for the manuscript belongs to the human authors in all cases.
Confidentiality, Data Protection, and Intellectual Property
Authors should not upload unpublished manuscript texts, confidential research data, personal data, information that could identify research participants, or confidential and copyright-protected materials belonging to third parties to AI/GenAI systems without appropriate authorization. The relevant rules concerning confidentiality, the protection of personal data, intellectual property, copyright, and research ethics must be observed when using AI/GenAI.
AI/GenAI Screening
In accordance with the principles of scientific publication ethics, our journal will screen manuscripts to be published from the December 2026 issue onward for the use of Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence using the iThenticate 2.0 AI Detection tool. (Update Date: 18/08/2026)
AI Detection screening alone is not considered a violation of publication ethics or conclusive evidence of the use of Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence. For determining the rate identified as Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence, the report obtained by JATSS using the iThenticate 2.0 AI Detection tool shall be taken as the basis. Authors are not required to obtain this report themselves and submit it to the journal. The screening is conducted with the references excluded.
Direct Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence Use Acceptance Rate %*: Reporting the Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence detection rate as %* indicates that the use of Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence is below 20% and does not provide a definitive rate. In this case, it is deemed appropriate for the study to be included in the evaluation process.
Justified Revision (Correction) Required Rate: 20%–35%: If the Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence detection rate is within the range of 20%–35% and the detections attributed to Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence are concentrated in sections of the study where an original contribution is expected, the manuscript is returned to the author for revision. The author(s) are expected to restructure and make the relevant sections identified as Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence original in accordance with their own academic judgment and original expressions. In this context, the author(s) will be provided with a correction note stating: “Please rephrase and make original, in your own words, the sections identified as being generated by Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence.” Following the revision, the manuscript will be re-evaluated. For the manuscript resubmitted with justification to be included in the evaluation process, the Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence rate of the manuscript must be below 35%.
The limit of less than 35% for the Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence detection rate in our journal should not be regarded as permission or encouragement for a substantial portion of the manuscript to be generated by Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence tools. Since the writing style of those who have learned English as a second language may be more formal, have a limited vocabulary, and be more predictable, the rate may be extended up to an upper limit of 34% under justified revision conditions. Therefore, the less-than-35% limit should not be regarded as an acceptable proportion of content generated by Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence, but rather as an upper threshold considered within the scope of editorial evaluation. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, and similar generative artificial intelligence/generative artificial intelligence tools may be used, when necessary, for supportive purposes such as English translation and language checking, spelling and grammar corrections. However, the original theoretical framework of the study, evaluations of the literature, methodological approach, analyses, findings, and scientific interpretations must be developed in accordance with the authors' own academic knowledge, judgment, and original contributions.
The JATSS Journal Editorial Office has determined that there is no centrally and automatically applied limit on the use of Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence for journals indexed by TR Dizin in the process of determining an Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence detection rate of less than 34%. However, it has been evaluated that, among journals indexed by TR Dizin, a maximum rate of 34% is taken as the basis, while lower rates are taken as the basis in a significant proportion of them; this approach is considered to have been adopted in order to tolerate and safeguard against the possible margin of error of Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence detection tools. Considering that our journal is also indexed by TR Dizin, it has been decided to apply an upper limit of less than 35% in line with national academic publishing standards, editorial responsibility, and the principles of scientific originality.
In addition, when determining the less-than-35% Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence detection threshold, Turnitin's statements regarding the margin of error and reliability of its own detection system have also been taken into consideration. Turnitin states that the likelihood of false positives is higher, particularly for results below 20%, and therefore reports such results as %*. However, although results of 20% and above may be reported numerically by the system, Turnitin also emphasizes that Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence detection is not an assessment carrying absolute certainty and should be considered together with human evaluation.
Turnitin Guides: https://guides.turnitin.com/hc/en-us/articles/22774058814093-Using-the-AI-Writing-Report
The screening results are evaluated together with the authors' declaration of AI/GenAI use, the content of the manuscript, and, where necessary, additional editorial reviews.
The journal may, when deemed necessary, request additional explanations or documentation from the authors regarding the nature, scope, and purpose of the use of AI/GenAI.
If AI/GenAI was used in the research, code, analysis, and verification records must be retained. For empirical studies, if deemed necessary by the reviewer/editor during the peer review process, authors may be requested to share data in the form of a data file and a code file within a replication file (as a ZIP file) in order to reproduce the results of the research.
Journal Editors may, when necessary, request all or part of the records listed above.
Direct Rejection: If the Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence detection rate is above 35%, the manuscript will be rejected directly. The main rationale for this practice is that the original scientific contribution of the manuscript and academic author responsibility cannot be adequately ensured.
Provision on the Updating of the Policy
This policy is implemented in accordance with the journal's ethical principles, scientific publishing standards, and publication policy. In line with developments in Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence technologies, current practices in academic publishing, and relevant national and international regulations, this policy will be re-evaluated and updated by the JATSS Journal Editorial Office when deemed necessary.
