Generative AI Policy

Overview

Recent in Engineering Science and Technology (RiESTech) recognizes that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and AI-assisted technologies may support academic writing, language refinement, technical editing, coding assistance, data visualization, and manuscript preparation. These tools may help improve clarity and efficiency in scholarly communication.

However, the use of GenAI must remain transparent, ethical, responsible, and accountable. GenAI must not replace the intellectual contribution of authors, reviewers, editors, or editorial staff. It must not compromise academic integrity, originality, confidentiality, authorship responsibility, research validity, or the reliability of the published scholarly record.

RiESTech is a peer-reviewed quarterly engineering journal that publishes theoretical and experimental high-quality papers in engineering science and technology. Therefore, all use of GenAI in manuscripts related to Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Material Science and Nanotechnology, Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering must follow strict standards of accuracy, reproducibility, transparency, and research ethics.

This policy applies to all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, reviewers, editors, editorial board members, and editorial staff.

For Authors

Authors may use GenAI or AI-assisted technologies only as supporting tools during manuscript preparation. Acceptable uses include language editing, grammar correction, formatting assistance, literature organization, code support, data visualization assistance, and improvement of readability.

Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, validity, integrity, and ethical quality of all submitted content. The use of GenAI does not reduce author responsibility for claims, arguments, methods, data, results, figures, tables, references, and conclusions.

GenAI tools must not be listed as authors or co-authors. Authorship requires human intellectual contribution, accountability, responsibility for the final manuscript, and the ability to respond to editorial and scientific questions.

Authors must disclose any meaningful use of GenAI or AI-assisted technologies in the manuscript. The disclosure should explain the name of the tool, the purpose of use, and the part of the manuscript or research process where the tool was used.

Authors must review, verify, edit, and validate all AI-assisted outputs before submission. This includes checking factual accuracy, technical accuracy, citations, equations, code, datasets, calculations, images, and interpretations.

Authors must not use GenAI to fabricate, falsify, manipulate, or generate research data, experimental results, citations, references, images, figures, tables, reviewer suggestions, or ethical approval documents. AI-generated content that affects the scientific meaning or interpretation of the manuscript must be carefully checked and clearly disclosed.

Suggested Disclosure Statement

Declaration of Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies Use:
During the preparation of this manuscript, the author(s) used [name of tool/service] for [purpose of use]. The author(s) have reviewed, edited, verified, and validated all AI-assisted outputs and take full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and scientific content of the manuscript.

If no GenAI tools were used, authors may state:

Declaration of Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies Use:
The author(s) declare that no generative AI or AI-assisted technologies were used in the preparation of this manuscript.

For Reviewers

Reviewers must maintain strict confidentiality throughout the peer-review process. Manuscripts, figures, tables, datasets, supplementary files, reviewer forms, and editorial correspondence must not be uploaded, copied, or processed using public or third-party GenAI tools.

Reviewers may use AI-assisted tools only for limited language support, such as improving grammar, clarity, or readability of their own review comments. This use is allowed only when no confidential manuscript content is uploaded to the tool.

GenAI must not replace the reviewer’s expert judgment. Review comments, assessments, methodological evaluation, novelty assessment, ethical considerations, and publication recommendations must be based on the reviewer’s own academic expertise.

If AI-assisted tools are used to support review comments, reviewers should disclose this use to the editor.

Suggested Reviewer Disclosure Statement

Declaration of Generative AI Use in Review:
I used [name of tool/service] only for [purpose of use, for example language editing of my review comments]. No manuscript content, figures, tables, data, or confidential editorial materials were uploaded to or processed by the tool. I take full responsibility for the content of this review.

For Editors and Editorial Staff

Editors and editorial staff of RiESTech must ensure that the use of GenAI does not compromise editorial independence, confidentiality, fairness, transparency, research integrity, or publication ethics.

Editors must not upload unpublished manuscripts, reviewer comments, author responses, datasets, figures, tables, or confidential editorial correspondence to public or third-party GenAI tools.

AI-assisted tools may be used only for limited administrative or language-support purposes, such as improving clarity of editorial correspondence, checking grammar, or organizing editorial notes. These tools must not replace human editorial judgment.

Editorial decisions must be made by qualified human editors. Decisions must be based on scholarly merit, methodological quality, originality, ethical compliance, reviewer evaluations, relevance to the scope of RiESTech, and contribution to the field of engineering science and technology.

GenAI must not be used to generate final editorial decisions, peer-review outcomes, acceptance decisions, rejection decisions, or ethical judgments without human editorial evaluation.

Prohibited Uses of Generative AI

The following uses of GenAI are not permitted in RiESTech publication processes:

  1. Listing an AI tool as an author or co-author.
  2. Generating, fabricating, falsifying, or manipulating research data.
  3. Creating fake references, unverifiable citations, or fabricated sources.
  4. Producing false experimental results, simulation results, equations, or technical claims.
  5. Manipulating images, figures, graphs, or tables in a misleading way.
  6. Uploading confidential manuscripts or peer-review materials to public AI tools.
  7. Using AI to conceal plagiarism, duplicate publication, data manipulation, or authorship misconduct.
  8. Generating misleading figures, codes, algorithms, models, or technical outputs without verification.
  9. Submitting AI-generated content without proper review, accountability, and disclosure.
  10. Using GenAI to replace the expert judgment of authors, reviewers, editors, or editorial staff.

Editorial Action on Suspected Misuse

If undisclosed, inappropriate, unethical, or suspicious use of GenAI is identified, RiESTech may request clarification, revision, disclosure, original data, source files, code files, documentation, or additional evidence from the author, reviewer, or editor involved.

Depending on the severity of the case, RiESTech may reject the manuscript, request correction, withdraw the manuscript from consideration, issue a correction, publish an expression of concern, retract a published article, or refer the case to the relevant institution or ethics body.

RiESTech follows principles of publication ethics, research integrity, transparency, accountability, and responsible scholarly communication in handling suspected misuse of GenAI.

Accountability

The use of GenAI does not reduce the responsibility of authors, reviewers, editors, or editorial staff. All parties remain fully accountable for the content they submit, review, evaluate, approve, or publish.

Transparency, confidentiality, ethical conduct, originality, technical accuracy, human oversight, and scientific accountability are mandatory in all uses of GenAI within the RiESTech publication process.

Policy Updated : May 2026