Journal Policy for Use of Artificial Intelligence in Publishing and Reviewing

The Editorial Board of the Transportation and Information Technologies in Russia / Транспорт и информационные технологии recognizes the growing availability and use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools in academic research and establishes the following policies regarding how authors, reviewers, and editorial board members should work with GenAI.

1. Generative Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT, etc.) cannot be listed as an author in publications. Artificial intelligence-based programs and tools do not meet the requirements of authorship because they are not (and cannot be) responsible for the work submitted, cannot declare the presence and absence of conflicts of interest, and cannot manage copyright.

2. The use of artificial intelligence-based programs is not prohibited by the Editorial Board when preparing the abstract and searching for additional sources of literature. Image generation and editing is prohibited. Authors should be aware that chatbots often transmit false information, which requires additional verification of information. In order to protect privacy, while interacting with generative artificial intelligence, authors are advised not to upload sensitive personal information about real people.

3. Authors should acknowledge the contributions made by generative artificial intelligence tools to any aspects of the published research. In the “Description of Generative Model Application” section, authors should include the title, version, and scope of the artificial intelligence-based program intervention, query criteria, and describe the specific tasks for which artificial intelligence was used (study design, data analysis, data visualization, text editing, literature search, etc.).

4. Articles that do not disclose the use of generative artificial intelligence tools and/or have large portions of text generated using artificial intelligence may be rejected. When manuscripts are checked by the editorial office, the appropriate module of the 'Antiplagiat' system is used to detect the text generated by artificial intelligence.

5. Editors, editorial board members, and reviewers are not permitted to use generative artificial intelligence when preparing article reviews, as the use of ChatGPT poses the risk of jeopardizing confidentiality and violating the authors' intellectual property rights to their work.

This policy will be updated as generative artificial intelligence tools evolve and impact the research publication process.