Generative AI Policy

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is a powerful technology that offers significant opportunities to enhance research, creativity, and academic publishing. At  Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat Kesehatan Terkini, we acknowledge the transformative impact of GenAI tools such as OpenAI's GPT-4 and successors, Google Gemini, Meta’s LLaMA 3, and other advanced multimodal and domain-specific AI models emerging in 2025. This policy sets forth our principles and guidelines to ensure responsible, transparent, and ethical use of GenAI in manuscript preparation, review, and publication, safeguarding the integrity and trustworthiness of scholarly communication.

1. Transparency and Disclosure
Authors must explicitly disclose any use of GenAI tools in their manuscripts, including text generation, data analysis, visualization, or language enhancement. This disclosure should appear in the acknowledgments or a footnote, specifying the tool used and its purpose. For example:
“This manuscript utilized GPT-4 (OpenAI) for language refinement and initial drafting. All content was reviewed and validated by the authors.”
Non-disclosure will be treated as a violation of publishing ethics.

2. Author Responsibility and Accountability
Use of GenAI does not diminish authors’ responsibility for the originality, accuracy, and ethical standards of their work. GenAI tools cannot be credited as authors since they lack accountability. Authors must verify that AI-generated content is accurate, unbiased, and ethically sound.

3. Ethical Use
GenAI must not be used to fabricate or manipulate data. References and citations generated by GenAI should be carefully checked for accuracy and authenticity. All AI-generated content must be validated to prevent misinformation or plagiarism.

4. Peer Review
 Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat Kesehatan Terkini relies exclusively on qualified human reviewers for manuscript evaluation. Reviewers are discouraged from using GenAI tools to ensure assessments reflect their professional expertise and judgment.

5. Editorial Use
The editorial team may use GenAI tools for auxiliary tasks such as grammar checking or similarity detection, but all editorial decisions remain human-driven. Authors are encouraged to use GenAI tools for language polishing but must disclose such usage.

6. Technical Guidance for Authors

    Disclose GenAI use clearly and specify its role.

    Verify all AI-generated content for accuracy and originality.

    Use plagiarism detection tools to avoid unintended duplication.

    Avoid relying on GenAI for critical intellectual contributions like hypothesis development or complex data interpretation.

    Manually check all references and citations.

7. Policy Review
This policy will be periodically updated to reflect technological advances and evolving best practices in generative AI and academic publishing.