Artificial Intelligence Policy

Trophos Science of Food acknowledges the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) in academic research and writing. To maintain the highest standards of scientific integrity, transparency, and accountability, we strictly enforce the following policies regarding the use of AI tools, aligned with the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

1. AI and Authorship

  • No AI Authorship: Artificial Intelligence tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar generative AI) cannot be listed as an author on any submitted manuscript. Authorship requires accountability, the ability to consent to publication, and the capacity to take moral and legal responsibility for the work.

2. Guidelines for Authors

  • Disclosure and Transparency: Authors are permitted to use AI tools for drafting, language polishing, or formatting their manuscripts. However, any use of generative AI in the writing process or data analysis must be explicitly and transparently disclosed in the manuscript (e.g., in the Materials and Methods or Acknowledgments section).

  • Full Accountability: Authors bear full, ultimate responsibility for the entire content of their manuscript, including any text, figures, or data generated or translated by AI. Authors must carefully verify all AI-generated output for accuracy and freedom from bias.

  • Plagiarism and Hallucination: Authors must ensure that AI-generated text does not commit plagiarism or contain fabricated references. AI-generated content that breaches our Plagiarism Policy will result in the immediate rejection of the manuscript.

  • Images and Graphics: The use of generative AI to create or alter scientific images, data figures, or graphs is generally prohibited unless explicitly part of the research design.

3. Guidelines for Reviewers and Editors

  • Confidentiality: The peer review process is strictly confidential. Reviewers and editors must not upload submitted manuscripts, or any part of them, into public generative AI tools to assist with the review or decision-making process.

  • Reviewer Accountability: Reviewers must be fully responsible for the content of their peer review reports and must not rely on AI to evaluate the scientific merit of a manuscript.

4. Editorial Decisions

  • Editorial decisions regarding manuscript acceptance, revision, or rejection are made solely by human editors based on human peer review. AI tools are not used to make final publication decisions at Trophos Science of Food.