About the use of AI

GUIDELINES FOR THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

ConCI Journal, committed to the principles of ethics, scientific integrity, transparency, and author responsibility, has adopted guidelines for the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in manuscripts submitted for review and publication. These guidelines are aligned with international and national recommendations for good editorial practices, particularly the guidelines of COPE, CAPES, and SciELO.

The use of AI tools must adhere to the principles of research integrity, intellectual honesty, traceability of scientific production processes, and authors’ responsibility for all submitted content. AI must be used exclusively as a support tool, not as a substitute for human authorship or the intellectual, critical, and reflective work that characterizes scientific production.

AI tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors of scientific articles. Authorship presupposes ethical responsibility, the ability to account for the content, and substantial intellectual participation—attributes that cannot be attributed to automated systems. Human authors are fully responsible for the originality, veracity, and theoretical, methodological, and empirical coherence of the manuscript.

The use of AI is permitted, provided it is ethical, transparent, and supervised, for:

grammatical, spelling, and stylistic review of the text;
supporting the clarity, cohesion, and organization of the writing;
translation of excerpts, with subsequent critical review by the authors;
support for the systematization of information previously produced by the authors themselves.

These uses must respect human intellectual authorship and not compromise the originality of the work.

The use of AI is not permitted for:

generating original scientific content without the authors’ control, validation, and critical interpretation;
creating, falsifying, manipulating, or distorting data, results, analyses, or bibliographic references;
simulating human intellectual production or concealing the automated origin of substantial parts of the text;
replace the analytical, theoretical, and methodological work inherent to scientific research.

Such practices constitute an ethical violation and breach the principles of good editorial practices upheld by national and international organizations, subjecting authors to publication bans.

In accordance with the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), and the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), the use of AI tools must be explicitly stated in the manuscript, in an appropriate section (e.g., in a footnote), indicating:

the name of the tool used;
the purpose of its use (e.g., linguistic review, translation, textual organization);
a statement that the final content has been reviewed, validated, and fully endorsed by the authors.

The absence of this statement will be considered a lack of transparency in the submission process.

ConCI Journal reserves the right to request additional clarification regarding the use of AI at any stage of the editorial process. Manuscripts showing evidence of inappropriate, undeclared, or unethical use of AI may be rejected, retracted, or subject to other measures provided for in the journal’s editorial policies.