Artificial Intelligence (AI) Usage Policy

1. Introduction

Jurnal Ilmu Dakwah recognizes the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), in academic research, writing, and scholarly publishing. AI technologies can provide useful assistance in language editing, translation, research organization, and other supporting activities. At the same time, their inappropriate use may raise serious concerns regarding academic integrity, originality, authorship, confidentiality, accuracy, and accountability.

Jurnal Ilmu Dakwah therefore supports the responsible and transparent use of AI as an assisting technology, not as a replacement for human scholarly work.

This policy applies to authors, reviewers, editors, editorial staff, and other parties involved in the publication process. It is guided by internationally recognized publication-ethics principles, including those promoted by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as well as the journal's commitment to Islamic ethical values, particularly amanah (trustworthiness), ṣidq (truthfulness), ‘adl (fairness), and mas’ūliyyah (accountability).

The basic principle of this policy is:

AI may assist academic work, but humans must remain responsible for the intellectual content, scholarly judgment, and ethical integrity of that work.

 

2. Principles for Responsible AI Use

Jurnal Ilmu Dakwah adopts the following principles:

Human Responsibility

The use of AI does not transfer scholarly or ethical responsibility from authors, reviewers, or editors to an AI system. All individuals involved in the publication process remain accountable for their decisions and outputs.

Transparency

The use of AI should be disclosed when it makes a meaningful contribution to the preparation of a manuscript. Authors should clearly identify the tool and the purpose for which it was used.

Human Intellectual Contribution

AI should not replace human conceptualization, critical thinking, interpretation, methodological judgment, or scholarly argumentation.

Verification

AI-generated information may contain errors, fabricated references, misleading statements, or inappropriate interpretations. All AI-assisted outputs must therefore be critically reviewed and verified by humans.

Confidentiality

Confidential manuscripts, unpublished research, reviewer reports, and editorial correspondence must not be entered into publicly accessible or unauthorized AI systems.

Academic Integrity

AI must not be used to fabricate or manipulate data, evidence, references, images, research findings, or other scholarly materials.

 

3. AI Use by Authors

Acceptable Uses

Authors may use AI tools for limited supportive purposes, including:

  • grammar, spelling, and language improvement;
  • translation, subject to human verification;
  • improving the clarity and readability of text originally produced by the authors;
  • generating keywords or exploring preliminary research ideas;
  • organizing notes or research materials;
  • assisting with non-substantive technical tasks; and
  • creating conceptual or explanatory visualizations based on accurate information.

AI may also be used to identify potentially relevant literature. However, authors must independently locate, read, evaluate, and verify all sources before citing them.

The use of AI does not reduce the author's responsibility for the final manuscript.

Uses That Are Not Acceptable

Authors must not rely on AI to independently produce the substantive scholarly contribution of a manuscript. In particular, AI must not be used to:

  1. fabricate, falsify, or manipulate research data or findings;
  2. invent participants, interviews, quotations, observations, or other evidence;
  3. generate or alter research results, tables, or figures in a misleading manner;
  4. create citations or references that have not been independently verified;
  5. generate a literature review or theoretical argument without the author's own critical evaluation of the literature;
  6. manipulate images or other evidence so that they misrepresent the underlying research; or
  7. circumvent plagiarism, originality, or other academic-integrity requirements.

Authors remain responsible for checking the accuracy, originality, and appropriateness of all AI-assisted material.

 

4. Disclosure of AI Use

Authors should disclose the use of AI when it has contributed beyond routine spelling or grammar correction.

The disclosure should identify:

  • the AI tool used;
  • the version, where available;
  • the purpose of its use; and
  • confirmation that the authors reviewed and take responsibility for the final content.

The disclosure may be placed in the Acknowledgments section or in a separate AI Declaration section, according to the journal's manuscript requirements.

A suitable statement is:

“This manuscript used [AI Tool Name, Version] to assist with [specific purpose]. The authors reviewed and verified the AI-assisted output and remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and final content of the manuscript.”

Routine assistance limited to basic spelling, punctuation, or grammar correction does not normally require a separate declaration. However, authors are encouraged to disclose AI use whenever it materially affects the preparation of the manuscript.

AI tools must not be listed as authors or co-authors.

 

5. Authorship and Accountability

AI systems cannot be recognized as authors of articles published by Jurnal Ilmu Dakwah.

Authorship requires intellectual contribution, scholarly judgment, responsibility for the work, and the ability to respond to questions concerning the research. AI systems cannot fulfill these responsibilities.

All listed authors must therefore:

  • make a genuine scholarly contribution;
  • approve the submitted manuscript;
  • ensure the accuracy and integrity of the work; and
  • accept responsibility for the final publication.

Where AI has been used, the human authors remain responsible for any errors, omissions, inaccurate claims, fabricated references, or other problems arising from AI-assisted content.

 

6. AI Use in Peer Review

Peer review is a confidential academic process. Reviewers must protect the confidentiality of manuscripts, research data, author information, and editorial correspondence.

Reviewers must not upload or paste manuscripts or substantial portions of manuscripts into external Generative AI systems for purposes such as summarization, evaluation, language editing, or generation of review comments.

AI must not be used to:

  • evaluate a manuscript on behalf of the reviewer;
  • generate a peer-review report;
  • determine the strengths or weaknesses of a manuscript;
  • make an accept/revise/reject recommendation; or
  • replace the reviewer's independent scholarly judgment.

Reviewers may use AI for limited non-confidential purposes, such as improving the language of review comments they have independently written, provided that no confidential manuscript information is disclosed.

Reviewers remain fully responsible for the content, fairness, and confidentiality of their reviews.

 

7. AI Use by Editors

Editors may use AI-assisted technologies for limited administrative purposes, provided that confidentiality and data protection are maintained.

Appropriate uses may include assistance with:

  • routine administrative communication;
  • non-confidential metadata organization;
  • technical workflow management; and
  • language improvement of general editorial information.

Editors must not upload confidential manuscripts, reviewer reports, author correspondence, or other protected editorial materials into public or unauthorized AI systems.

AI must not be used as a substitute for editorial judgment in decisions concerning:

  • manuscript acceptance or rejection;
  • reviewer selection;
  • assessment of scholarly quality;
  • authorship;
  • research misconduct;
  • ethical disputes; or
  • publication or retraction decisions.

All substantive editorial decisions must remain under human responsibility.

 

8. AI, Research Integrity, and Islamic Ethics

Jurnal Ilmu Dakwah views responsible AI use as part of broader research and publication ethics.

The journal particularly emphasizes the following values:

Amanah (trustworthiness): Authors, reviewers, and editors must treat scholarly work and their publication responsibilities as a trust.

Ṣidq (truthfulness): AI must not be used to create false evidence, fabricated references, misleading claims, or deceptive representations of research.

‘Adl (fairness): AI must not compromise fairness in peer review, editorial decisions, authorship, or the treatment of scholars.

Mas’ūliyyah (accountability): Human participants in the publication process remain responsible for decisions and scholarly outputs produced with AI assistance.

These principles are particularly important in research concerning religion, communication, society, culture, politics, and religious communities, where inappropriate AI-generated information may produce significant factual or interpretive distortions.

 

9. Confidentiality, Privacy, and Intellectual Property

Users of Jurnal Ilmu Dakwah technologies must protect confidential and personal information.

Authors, reviewers, and editors should not submit to external AI systems:

  • confidential manuscripts;
  • unpublished research data;
  • identifiable participant information;
  • confidential reviewer information;
  • editorial correspondence; or
  • material protected by copyright or institutional confidentiality.

The use of AI does not remove obligations concerning copyright, intellectual property, privacy, research ethics, or applicable data-protection requirements.

 

10. AI Detection and Editorial Assessment

Jurnal Ilmu Dakwah recognizes that AI-detection technologies have limitations and may produce both false-positive and false-negative results.

Consequently, AI-detection results alone will not be treated as conclusive evidence of academic misconduct.

Where concerns arise regarding inappropriate or undisclosed AI use, the journal may request clarification or additional information from the authors and may conduct an appropriate editorial or publication-ethics assessment.

The journal's decisions will be based on human evaluation and established publication-ethics procedures rather than solely on automated AI-detection results.

 

11. Non-Compliance

Failure to comply with this policy may constitute a publication-ethics concern.

Depending on the nature and seriousness of the violation, Jurnal Ilmu Dakwah may:

  • request clarification from the authors or reviewers;
  • require appropriate correction or disclosure;
  • reject a manuscript;
  • suspend or terminate a review assignment;
  • remove a reviewer from the journal's reviewer database;
  • issue a correction or editorial notice; or
  • retract a published article where serious misconduct is established.

Any action will be taken in accordance with the circumstances of the case and the journal's applicable publication-ethics procedures.

 

12. Final Statement

Jurnal Ilmu Dakwah welcomes responsible technological innovation while maintaining that academic scholarship remains fundamentally a human responsibility.

AI may support researchers and publishing professionals in improving efficiency and communication, but it must not replace scholarly reasoning, critical judgment, ethical responsibility, or human authorship.

Jurnal Ilmu Dakwah is committed to ensuring that the use of AI contributes to, rather than undermines, the integrity of Islamic communication scholarship. All users of AI within the publication process are therefore expected to uphold transparency, accuracy, confidentiality, academic integrity, and the ethical principles of amanah, ṣidq, ‘adl, and mas’ūliyyah.

This policy will be periodically reviewed and updated in response to developments in AI technologies, scholarly publishing practices, publication ethics, and applicable regulations.