INTEGRATED acknowledges the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in academic writing. To maintain research integrity, we establish the following guidelines regarding the use of AI tools in the publication process:

1. Guidelines for Authors

• Assistive AI Tools: The use of AI for basic language polishing, grammar correction, and structural formatting (e.g., Grammarly, spelling checkers) is fully permitted and does not require formal disclosure.
• Generative AI Tools: If AI models (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) are utilized to generate original text, data, code, or images, authors must explicitly disclose this in the manuscript (preferably in the Acknowledgments or Methodology section).
• Verification and Authorship: AI systems cannot be credited as authors or co-authors. Human authors bear full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, and validity of their manuscript. Authors must meticulously verify AI-generated content to prevent factual hallucinations, fabricated citations, and unintentional plagiarism.

2. Guidelines for Reviewers and Editors

• Confidentiality: Peer reviewers and editors are strictly prohibited from uploading unpublished manuscripts into public generative AI platforms to create summaries or evaluation reports. Doing so violates author confidentiality and intellectual property rights.
• Assistive Use: Reviewers may use assistive AI solely to refine the grammar and clarity of their own review reports, provided the core intellectual evaluation is entirely human-driven.

3. Violations and Accountability

Failure to disclose the substantial use of generative AI, or the submission of hallucinated data, will result in immediate rejection. Post-publication discovery of unethical AI use may lead to formal corrections or retraction of the article.