AI Policy

AI Policy
Reviewed annually

1. Introduction

El-Mizzi: Jurnal Ilmu Hadis is committed to upholding high standards of academic integrity, transparency, originality, source accuracy, and ethical scholarly publishing. The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies presents both opportunities and ethical challenges in academic communication, especially in the fields of hadith studies, hadith sciences, living hadith, Islamic textual studies, manuscript studies, digital hadith research, and interdisciplinary hadith scholarship.

This policy provides clear guidance on the responsible, transparent, and accountable use of AI across all stages of article preparation, peer review, editorial management, and publication. The journal acknowledges that AI may support certain technical and editorial tasks, but it cannot replace human intellectual responsibility, scholarly judgment, originality, source verification, methodological rigor, and ethical accountability.

2. Scope

This policy applies to all participants involved in the publication process of El-Mizzi: Jurnal Ilmu Hadis, including authors, reviewers, editors, editorial board members, and the publisher.

This policy covers all forms of AI and AI-assisted technologies, including large language models, text generators, translation tools, grammar-checking tools, image generators, reference management automation, data analysis tools, transcription tools, corpus analysis systems, digital hadith search tools, and other automated or semi-automated technologies used in research, writing, reviewing, editing, or publishing.

3. Disclosure of AI Use

Transparency is a mandatory requirement. Authors must disclose any substantial use of AI tools in the preparation of an article. The disclosure must clearly state the name of the tool, the purpose of its use, the stage at which it was used, and the extent of human verification.

AI use must be disclosed in the cover letter and, when relevant, in the article itself. If AI was used only for language editing, grammar checking, or formatting assistance, the disclosure may be placed in the Acknowledgments section. If AI was used for data analysis, corpus processing, translation support, coding, visualization, transcription support, or other substantive research activities, the disclosure must be included in the Method section.

Authors are fully responsible for verifying the accuracy, reliability, originality, and ethical acceptability of all AI-assisted outputs. AI-generated content must not be accepted without critical human review, source verification, and scholarly revision.

4. Permitted and Prohibited Uses of AI

4.1 Permitted Uses

AI tools may be used for limited supportive purposes, provided that their use is transparent, ethical, and does not compromise the originality or intellectual contribution of the article. Permitted uses include language editing, grammar checking, spelling correction, formatting assistance, translation support with human verification, reference formatting assistance, transcription support, data visualization based on verified data, and technical support in corpus or textual analysis.

In studies involving hadith texts, sanad and matn analysis, classical Islamic sources, manuscripts, Arabic translations, or living hadith data, any AI-assisted output must be carefully checked against reliable primary and secondary sources. Authors must ensure that AI does not introduce inaccurate translations, fabricated references, false hadith attributions, unsupported authenticity claims, distorted interpretations, or misleading academic arguments.

4.2 Prohibited Uses

AI systems must not be listed as authors or co-authors. Authorship is limited to human contributors who are capable of taking responsibility for the integrity, originality, and accountability of the article.

Authors may not delegate intellectual responsibility to AI tools. The use of AI to generate substantial article content, fabricate sources, create false citations, invent hadith texts, produce fake sanad or matn data, manipulate research findings, falsify fieldwork data, or replace scholarly analysis is strictly prohibited.

Authors are also prohibited from uploading confidential materials, unpublished manuscripts, reviewer reports, editorial correspondence, private datasets, interview transcripts, restricted manuscript images, or sensitive community data to external AI platforms that may store, reuse, or disclose such data.

Any AI-generated content that introduces bias, misinformation, fabricated evidence, inaccurate religious attribution, distorted hadith interpretation, or unsupported academic claims is unacceptable.

5. Responsibilities of Authors

Authors bear full responsibility for the integrity, accuracy, originality, and ethical compliance of their articles, including any AI-assisted content. All AI-generated or AI-assisted outputs must be reviewed, verified, corrected, and approved by the authors before submission.

Authors must ensure that the article complies with the journal’s publication ethics, plagiarism policy, authorship policy, citation standards, research integrity requirements, and specific scholarly standards in hadith studies.

The use of AI does not reduce the responsibility of authors for errors, inaccuracies, ethical violations, plagiarism, fabricated references, false hadith attribution, unverifiable sources, or misinterpretation of classical and contemporary scholarship.

Authors must include one of the following statements in their submission:

If AI tools were used:

“The authors used [Tool Name] for [specific purpose]. All outputs were reviewed, verified, and revised by the authors, who take full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, and integrity of the article.”

If no AI tools were used:

“No AI-assisted technologies were used in the preparation of this article.”

6. Peer Reviewers

Reviewers must maintain strict confidentiality throughout the peer review process. Reviewers must not upload submitted articles, article excerpts, unpublished data, reviewer reports, editorial correspondence, hadith analysis, fieldwork materials, or other confidential content to AI platforms or external tools that may retain, process, or reuse such materials.

AI tools may only be used by reviewers for limited purposes, such as improving the clarity, grammar, or structure of review comments. AI must not be used to replace the reviewer’s own scholarly judgment, critical evaluation, methodological assessment, source verification, or recommendation.

Any use of AI by reviewers must be disclosed to the handling editor. Reviewers remain fully responsible for the accuracy, fairness, confidentiality, and integrity of their review reports.

7. Editors and Editorial Board Members

Editors and editorial board members may use AI tools in limited and responsible ways to support editorial processes, such as plagiarism detection, metadata verification, reference checking, workflow management, language screening, and technical quality control.

However, all editorial decisions must be made by human editors. AI must not determine acceptance, rejection, revision decisions, reviewer selection without human oversight, or final publication decisions.

Editors must ensure that the use of AI does not compromise confidentiality, fairness, editorial independence, peer review integrity, source accuracy, or the rights of authors and reviewers. Editors must not upload confidential submitted articles, reviewer reports, editorial correspondence, or unpublished research materials to AI systems that may store or reuse data.

8. Ethical Standards and Alignment

This policy is guided by international best practices in scholarly publishing and ethical recommendations from recognized organizations and academic publishers, including COPE, STM Association, UNESCO, and major scholarly publishing institutions.

El-Mizzi: Jurnal Ilmu Hadis emphasizes that AI must be used to support, not replace, academic rigor, source verification, ethical responsibility, critical reasoning, and scholarly accountability. In the context of hadith studies and living hadith studies, special care must be taken to ensure that AI-assisted work does not misrepresent hadith texts, sanad and matn evidence, narrator evaluations, classical sources, translations, manuscript evidence, community practices, or established scholarly debates.

9. Violations and Consequences

Violations of this policy may result in editorial action. Depending on the severity of the violation, the journal may reject the article, request clarification, require revision, withdraw acceptance, retract a published article, notify the author’s institution, or impose temporary or permanent restrictions on future submissions.

Examples of violations include undisclosed AI use, AI-generated fabricated references, AI-assisted plagiarism, use of AI to manipulate data or findings, invention of hadith references, false attribution of classical sources, uploading confidential review materials to AI systems, false authorship claims, and failure to verify AI-generated content.

When necessary, the journal may issue corrections, expressions of concern, or retraction notices in accordance with its publication ethics and retraction policies.

10. Policy Review and Updates

This policy will be reviewed annually and updated when necessary to reflect developments in AI technologies, international publishing standards, research ethics, and academic integrity requirements.

The journal reserves the right to amend this policy in response to new ethical challenges, technological changes, or recommendations from recognized scholarly publishing organizations.

References

COPE. 2023. Guidance on AI and Ethics in Publishing.

Elsevier. 2023. AI Policy for Authors and Reviewers.

Nature Editorial. 2023. Tools such as ChatGPT Threaten Transparent Science.

STM Association. 2023. Recommendations for Classification of AI Use.

UNESCO. 2021. Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.