ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POLICY

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI-Assisted Technologies Policy

Jompa Abdi: Journal of Community Service recognizes that artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies can support various aspects of research, writing, language improvement, data analysis, and manuscript preparation. The journal permits the responsible use of these technologies, provided that their use is transparent, ethically appropriate, and subject to meaningful human oversight.

Authors remain fully responsible for the originality, accuracy, integrity, validity, and scholarly content of their manuscripts, regardless of whether AI or AI-assisted technologies are used during research or manuscript preparation.

Permitted Uses of AI

AI and AI-assisted technologies may be used to support legitimate scholarly activities, including, where appropriate:

Language editing, grammar correction, and improvement of readability;
Translation assistance;
Organization or restructuring of author-written text;
Brainstorming and preliminary idea development;
Programming or coding assistance;
Data processing or computational analysis;
Literature discovery or information retrieval assistance; and
Other appropriate research-support activities conducted under adequate author supervision.

The use of AI does not diminish authors' responsibility to independently verify all information, analyses, interpretations, citations, and conclusions included in their manuscripts.

AI Cannot Be an Author

AI systems, large language models, chatbots, and other AI-assisted technologies cannot be listed as authors or co-authors of manuscripts submitted to Jompa Abdi: Journal of Community Service.

Authorship requires accountability for the scholarly work, the ability to approve the final manuscript, responsibility for its accuracy and integrity, and the capacity to respond to questions concerning the research. These responsibilities must remain with human authors.

Disclosure of AI Use

Authors must transparently disclose substantive use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in manuscript preparation when such tools contribute to the generation, modification, analysis, or interpretation of manuscript content.

Where disclosure is required, authors should identify:

The name of the AI tool or system used;
The purpose for which the tool was used;
The stage or part of the research or manuscript in which it was used; and
How the authors reviewed, verified, and accepted responsibility for the resulting content.

The appropriate location and level of detail of the disclosure may depend on the nature of the AI use. When AI is used as part of the research methodology, its use must be described adequately in the Methods section to support transparency and reproducibility. When generative AI is used primarily for manuscript preparation, its use should be reported in an AI Disclosure Statement or another section specified by the journal.

Example of an AI Disclosure Statement

Artificial Intelligence Disclosure: During the preparation of this manuscript, the authors used ChatGPT, Grammarly, and Claude for language improvement and editorial assistance. The authors subsequently reviewed and revised all content generated or modified with the assistance of these tools and take full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and final content of the manuscript.

Authors must modify this statement to accurately reflect the tools actually used and the extent and purpose of their use.

AI-Generated Information and References

Authors must independently verify factual statements, references, quotations, statistics, datasets, and other information suggested or generated by AI systems before including them in a manuscript.

AI-generated responses must not substitute for appropriate scholarly sources when scientific or academic claims can be supported by original literature.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that all references cited in their manuscripts are authentic, accurate, relevant, accessible where appropriate, and genuinely supportive of the claims for which they are cited.

Unacceptable Uses of AI

AI and AI-assisted technologies must not be used in ways that compromise research integrity or misrepresent authors' scholarly contributions.

Unacceptable practices include, but are not limited to:

Generating or fabricating research data, participants, interviews, observations, or experimental results;
Fabricating, altering, or inventing references, quotations, DOI information, or bibliographic details;
Using AI-generated analyses or conclusions without adequate human verification;
Using AI to create false, misleading, manipulated, or deceptive research evidence;
Presenting substantially AI-generated scholarly content as entirely human-produced when disclosure is required;
Using AI in ways that violate confidentiality, privacy, intellectual property rights, research ethics, or applicable laws; and
Using AI to conceal plagiarism, data manipulation, duplicate publication, or other forms of research or publication misconduct.

Confidentiality, Privacy, and Research Data

Authors should exercise particular caution when entering unpublished manuscripts, confidential information, personal data, participant information, proprietary datasets, or other sensitive research materials into third-party AI systems.

Authors remain responsible for ensuring that the use of AI tools complies with applicable requirements concerning privacy, informed consent, confidentiality, data protection, intellectual property, and research ethics.

AI Content Screening

As part of its internal editorial screening policy, Jompa Abdi: Journal of Community Service normally expects the proportion of content identified as AI-generated in submitted manuscripts not to exceed 20%.

The journal may use Turnitin AI Writing Detection or other appropriate tools as part of its editorial screening procedures.

Important: AI detection is a screening indicator, not conclusive evidence of misconduct.

An AI-detection percentage is not considered conclusive proof that a manuscript was written by AI or that publication misconduct has occurred. Detection results may be considered alongside the manuscript itself, author disclosures, editorial assessment, and other relevant evidence.

When an AI-detection report raises substantial concerns, the editorial team may request clarification, revision, an AI disclosure statement, or other relevant information from the authors before making an editorial decision.

Human Oversight and Responsibility

AI-assisted technologies may support scholarly work but must not replace the critical intellectual contribution, judgment, interpretation, and accountability expected of human researchers.

Before submission, authors must review and verify all AI-assisted content and ensure that the final manuscript accurately represents their own research, reasoning, interpretation, and scholarly conclusions.

The corresponding author and all co-authors remain collectively responsible for the final manuscript.

Non-Disclosure or Misuse of AI

Failure to disclose substantive AI use when disclosure is required, or the use of AI in ways that compromise research or publication integrity, may result in editorial action.

Depending on the nature and severity of the issue, the journal may request clarification or revision, reject the manuscript, or take appropriate post-publication action in accordance with its Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement and Corrections, Retractions, and Expressions of Concern Policy.

AI Policy Summary

Responsible use of AI-assisted technologies: Permitted.
AI as an author or co-author: Not permitted.
Disclosure of substantive generative AI use: Required.
Human verification and oversight: Required.
Fabrication of AI-generated data or references: Prohibited.
Normal internal AI-detection threshold: No more than 20%.
AI-detection software: A screening tool, not conclusive evidence of misconduct.
Responsibility for the final manuscript: Remains with the authors.