AI Usage Policy

Jurnal Sosial Humaniora dan Pendidikan (EDUCATION) supports the ethical and responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in scholarly research and publication. AI-assisted activities must uphold academic integrity, transparency, information accuracy, and respect for research participants' rights.

This policy applies to authors, editors, and reviewers throughout manuscript preparation, evaluation, and publication.

1. AI Use in Research and Scholarly Writing

AI tools may assist with language editing, translation, manuscript organization, data analysis, and other relevant research activities.

The use of AI in interview analysis, educational data processing, thematic analysis, or research interpretation must be adequately described in the methodology section.

AI must not be used to fabricate research data, falsify participant quotations, generate fictitious references, or present artificially generated content as authentic empirical evidence.

Authors must ensure that AI assistance does not replace critical reasoning, scholarly interpretation, or original intellectual contributions.

2. Transparency and Disclosure Requirements

Authors must disclose any substantive use of AI tools in manuscript preparation, research analysis, or the generation of research findings.

The disclosure must identify the AI tool, its intended purpose, and the specific research activities or manuscript sections in which it was used.

Basic spelling and grammar assistance does not require a separate declaration, provided it does not generate or substantially modify scholarly content.

3. Data Protection and Research Ethics

AI use in educational and social research must respect participant privacy, confidentiality, and ethical rights.

Personal student records, children's identities, interview transcripts, institutional documents, and sensitive information must not be uploaded to external AI platforms without appropriate consent or authorization and adequate data protection safeguards.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that AI-assisted data processing complies with applicable research ethics requirements and data protection regulations.

4. Authorship and Scholarly Accountability

AI tools cannot be recognized as authors or co-authors because they cannot fulfill the responsibilities associated with academic authorship.

Human authors retain full responsibility for originality, methodological validity, data accuracy, reference reliability, and research conclusions.

All AI-generated or AI-assisted materials must be critically reviewed and independently verified before inclusion in scholarly manuscripts.

5. AI Use by Editors and Reviewers

Editors and reviewers must maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts and information obtained during peer review.

Unpublished manuscript content, research data, and editorial documents must not be uploaded to external AI systems without appropriate authorization and confidentiality safeguards.

AI assistance must not replace independent scholarly judgment, ethical assessment, or editorial responsibility in manuscript evaluation.

6. Policy Violations and Editorial Actions

Using AI to fabricate data, manipulate findings, generate fictitious references, breach confidentiality, or conceal AI assistance when disclosure is required may constitute a publication ethics concern.

EDUCATION may request clarification, require corrections, or take proportionate editorial action based on the available evidence and severity of the violation.

Such concerns will be addressed in accordance with the journal's Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement and Allegations of Research Misconduct Policy.

7. AI Usage Declaration

Authors who substantially use AI tools must include an AI usage statement in their manuscripts.

AI Usage Statement

"The authors used [AI tool name] for [specific purpose] during [research activity or manuscript section]. All AI-assisted outputs were independently reviewed and verified. The authors retain full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, and scholarly integrity of the manuscript."

EDUCATION emphasizes that artificial intelligence is a supporting research tool whose use must remain consistent with academic integrity, participant rights, and human scholarly accountability.