Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy

1. Purpose and Scope

The Journal of Pedagogical and Teacher Professional Development (JPTPD) acknowledges the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI technologies, including large language models (LLMs), in educational research, teaching-related studies, and academic publishing.

This policy is established to regulate the ethical, transparent, and responsible use of AI technologies throughout the research, writing, submission, peer review, and publication processes. The policy applies to authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial staff and is designed to safeguard academic integrity, originality, and accountability in line with international publishing standards and best practices as required by DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science (Clarivate), and COPE.

 

2. Principles of Responsible AI Use

JPTPD is guided by the following principles in governing the use of AI technologies:

2.1 Human Accountability

All scholarly work published in JPTPD must remain under full human responsibility. Authors, reviewers, and editors are solely accountable for the accuracy, validity, originality, ethical compliance, and scholarly value of all content. AI tools cannot assume authorship, responsibility, or accountability.

2.2 Transparency

The use of AI tools must be openly disclosed to ensure transparency in the research and publication process. Undisclosed AI use undermines trust in scholarly communication.

2.3 Academic Integrity and Originality

AI tools must not compromise the originality of research, the credibility of pedagogical insights, or the validity of professional development findings.

2.4 Prohibition of AI Authorship

AI tools and systems must not be credited as authors or co-authors under any circumstances. Authorship is reserved exclusively for human contributors who meet recognized authorship criteria.

 

3. Permitted Uses of Artificial Intelligence

Authors may use AI tools only as supplementary support, provided that the intellectual and scholarly contribution remains human-driven. Permitted uses include:

  1. Language editing and proofreading, including grammar correction, clarity improvement, and academic style refinement.

  2. Reference management assistance, such as citation formatting and bibliography organisation.

  3. Pre-submission similarity checking, to help authors ensure originality.

  4. Technical or analytical support, such as organising qualitative or quantitative data, coding assistance, or generating visual representations, provided that:

    • Research design, pedagogical interpretation, and conclusions are developed by the authors.

    • AI tools do not independently generate research findings or pedagogical claims.

AI use must not substitute critical reflection, theoretical reasoning, or professional judgment.

 

4. Prohibited Uses of Artificial Intelligence

The Journal strictly prohibits the following uses of AI technologies:

  1. Generation of substantive scholarly content, including research aims, theoretical perspectives, pedagogical frameworks, methodologies, results, discussions, implications, or conclusions.

  2. Fabrication or manipulation of data, classroom observations, interview responses, assessment results, or citations.

  3. Automated writing or ghost authorship, where AI replaces significant human intellectual input.

  4. Undisclosed AI involvement, particularly where AI-generated outputs materially influence the manuscript.

  5. Creation of false, inaccurate, or non-existent references through AI tools.

Such practices constitute serious breaches of publication ethics.

 

5. Disclosure Requirements

To comply with transparency standards required by DOAJ and Scopus, authors must:

  1. Clearly disclose any use of AI tools in:

    • the Acknowledgements section, or

    • a dedicated Artificial Intelligence Disclosure Statement.

  2. Provide the name of the AI tool, its version (if applicable), and the specific purpose for which it was used.

  3. Explicitly confirm that AI tools were not used to generate the core intellectual content of the manuscript.

Failure to disclose AI use may result in rejection, correction, or post-publication action.

 

6. Ethical and Legal Responsibilities

Authors remain fully responsible for ensuring that AI use complies with:

  1. Standards of academic integrity and ethical research practice

  2. Copyright and intellectual property laws

  3. Data protection, privacy, and confidentiality obligations

Any ethical breach involving AI-assisted content will be handled according to the journal’s Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement and COPE guidelines.

 

7. Editorial and Peer Review Considerations

All submissions to JPTPD undergo editorial screening and peer review based on scholarly merit, relevance to pedagogical practices and teacher professional development, originality, and ethical compliance.

Editors and reviewers may evaluate the appropriateness and transparency of AI use as part of the integrity assessment. The use of AI does not influence editorial decisions and does not reduce the rigor of the review process.

 

8. Compliance and Sanctions

Violations of this Artificial Intelligence Policy may lead to one or more of the following actions:

  1. Manuscript rejection

  2. Request for clarification or revision

  3. Publication of corrections or expressions of concern

  4. Retraction of published articles

  5. Notification of authors’ institutions in cases of serious misconduct

All actions will follow COPE-recommended procedures.

 

9. Policy Review and Updates

This policy will be reviewed periodically to reflect developments in AI technologies and updates to ethical and indexing standards issued by DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science, and COPE.

 

10. Contact

For questions regarding this Artificial Intelligence Policy, please contact the editorial office of the Journal of Pedagogical and Teacher Professional Development.

ppgiainjember@gmail.com