ACNS policy on AI assisting tools
Today our publisher, the Academy of Cognitive and Natural Sciences, has introduced a new policy on AI assisting tools.
Editorial Board is obliged:
The list of authors should indicate the persons who have made a significant contribution to the scientific research presented in the article. Academic status, position, or another seniority should not determine the order in the list; the order of authors should indicate the relative leadership and value of the researchers’ contribution to this scientific work.
The author of the manuscript is a researcher who has made a contribution in all subsequent stages of the preparation of the article:
Each author is responsible for the content of the article. If the work is produced by a team of scientists, authors must include a list of persons who meet the above criteria and add the name of the group.
Funding for the study or the general supervision of the work is not authorship.
Conflicts of interest (CI) – these are the factors that negatively affect the objectivity, or can be perceived as interference in the process of peer review, editorial decision-making, publishing, and presentation of the manuscript.
A conflict of interest may arise in relation to individuals or organizations, and is divided into the following categories (but not be limited to these):
Personal CI:
Professional CI:
Financial CI:
The authors confirm that all the material presented in the publication will be distributed in the public domain and may be used by other researchers with a scientific non-profit purpose under the terms of the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) with the obligatory indication of authorship.
Supportive data (data sets, software applications, photos, audio, and video), covering and complementing the content of the study, can be further placed in institutional repositories or on other online resources, you need to provide a link in the article. If the author is not able to take advantage of this resource, materials can be loaded into the journal as an "Other" when submitting the article.
If the article describes a new software open source, authors should place it on a suitable resource and provide a comprehensive description of the used algorithms.
If there is a doubt in the authenticity of the data provided in the published article, and the material cannot be accessed, making it impossible to check them, readers can contact the editors to further contact with the author, test, and make corrections.
On request, the authors must provide immediate access to all data and materials presented in the article, if it does not break a rule of confidentiality, related to the anonymous questioning of people during research.
When submitting, authors should confirm that the manuscript (or its modified version) at the moment is not sent for review and publication in another journal. If such work has already been filed or published in another journal, the editors will not consider such manuscripts.
At our journal, we recognize the growing use of AI-assisting tools in the field of natural language processing and its potential implications on research ethics and authorship. Therefore, we require authors to disclose the use of any AI-assisting tools in their research, including but not limited to language models, predictive keyboards, and code assistants. This disclosure should include the scope and nature of their use, as well as any potential sources of plagiarism.
Regarding the use of AI-assisting tools, we distinguish between the following cases:
Regardless of the cases above, the journal publishes original work from named human authors, and thus contributions from AI assistants can only be stated in the acknowledgments and/or by suitable references in the original research papers. We require that all authors and editors adhere to these guidelines. Their violation will lead to the removal of the published paper similar to our procedures dealing with plagiarism.
Today our publisher, the Academy of Cognitive and Natural Sciences, has introduced a new policy on AI assisting tools.
Thematic issue on Augmented Reality in Education (Issue 4 of volume 2022) will be published on December 21, 2022.
This journal is published by the Academy of Cognitive and Natural Sciences (ACNS) and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).