1. AI Policy for Journals and Editors

1.1 Editors and journal staff may use generative AI, AI-assisted technologies, and automated tools that have undergone risk assessment and received appropriate authorization to support administrative and editorial tasks, including document verification, manuscript formatting, literature searches, similarity checking, and reviewer identification.
1.2 AI use must remain under human oversight. Editors and journal staff must verify the accuracy, completeness, appropriateness, and potential biases of AI-generated outputs before using them.
1.3 AI must not replace editorial judgment or academic decision-making. AI must not be used to determine research or publication misconduct without editorial review and consideration.
1.4 Editors remain fully responsible for final editorial decisions and any content used in the journal's editorial processes.
1.5 Editors and journal staff must maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts, peer-review reports, and related information. Confidential information must not be entered into AI systems that have not been authorized to process such data.
1.6 Any substantive use of AI beyond the permitted scope must be disclosed in accordance with the journal's policies and applicable requirements.

2. AI Policy for Reviewers

2.1 Reviewers may use AI tools to support the preparation of peer-review reports, including language improvement, grammar checking, and organizing review comments.
2.2 Reviewers must not use AI to replace their academic judgment or delegate manuscript evaluation and scholarly recommendations to AI systems.
2.3 Reviewers must protect the confidentiality of manuscripts and peer-review information. Manuscripts, images, tables, supplementary materials, and confidential information must not be uploaded to publicly accessible AI systems, even when model-training functions are disabled or personally identifiable information has been removed.
2.4 Reviewers remain fully responsible for all comments and recommendations submitted to the editor.
2.5 Reviewers must verify the accuracy and appropriateness of AI-generated outputs before using them.
2.6 Reviewers must disclose AI use in their peer-review reports or notify the editor in accordance with the journal's policies.

3. AI Policy for Authors

3.1 Authors may use AI tools to support manuscript preparation, including language and grammar checking, translation, text restructuring, literature searching and reviewing, and the creation of explanatory illustrations.
3.2 Authors must not use AI to fabricate or falsify research data, manipulate findings, alter experimental evidence in misleading ways, generate nonexistent references, or engage in activities that violate research ethics, intellectual property rights, or individual privacy.
3.3 Authors must verify the accuracy and appropriateness of AI-generated content, data, research findings, and references, correct any errors, and remain fully responsible for the entire content of their articles.
3.4 AI tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors because they cannot assume responsibility for scholarly work or approve the final version of a manuscript.
3.5 Authors must disclose the AI tool used, its model or version (if known), the purpose, and the scope of use in accordance with the journal's requirements. When AI is used in research methodology, sufficient details must be provided to enable verification and reproducibility, as appropriate. AI-generated or AI-modified images must also be disclosed. Authors who have not used AI must provide a declaration of non-use as required by the journal.

Reference: Guidelines issued by the Thai-Journal Citation Index Centre (TCI).