AI USAGE POLICY
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Usage Policy Jurnal Ulumul Qur'an: Jurnal Kajian Ilmu Al-Qur’an dan Tafsir
1. Purpose and General Principle Jurnal Ulumul Qur'an: Jurnal Kajian Ilmu Al-Qur’an dan Tafsir upholds integrity and transparency in academic writing. We recognize that generative artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted tools may support limited aspects of scholarly writing. This policy explains how authors, reviewers, and the editorial team may use such tools responsibly while protecting originality, confidentiality, source accuracy, and human accountability in Qur'anic and tafsir scholarship.
Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and similar platforms, lack the capacity to be held legally and morally accountable for a scholarly work. Therefore, AI is strictly prohibited from being listed as an author or co-author. Authorship is limited exclusively to human contributors who can approve the final manuscript, respond to editorial questions, and be accountable for the integrity of the publication.
2. Permitted Uses and Author Responsibilities Authors retain full and ultimate responsibility for the entire substance of the manuscript, which includes data accuracy, argument validity, and textual originality. The use of AI tools is permitted solely as a help for language editing, improving readability, grammar checking, formatting, or reference management. Any AI-assisted output must be carefully reviewed, corrected, and verified by the author before submission.
The use of basic spelling checkers, grammar tools, or reference managers does not require formal disclosure unless the tool generates or substantially rewrites scholarly content.
3. Unacceptable Uses by Authors Authors are barred from utilizing AI to generate substantial content, data, analysis, or conclusions that may undermine originality and academic accountability. Authors must not use AI tools to fabricate references, quotations, Qur'anic interpretations, hadith citations, manuscript descriptions, historical evidence, or literature reviews.
Because the journal publishes scholarship involving Arabic and other languages relevant to Islamic studies, AI-assisted translation or transliteration may be used only as a preliminary aid. Authors must verify the final wording against the original source and should not rely on AI to determine the meaning of Qur'anic verses, classical commentaries, or technical terminology without expert review. Manuscripts that reveal excessive reliance on AI-generated content or fail to acknowledge its use may be rejected.
4. Disclosure Requirement Authors are required to explicitly and transparently disclose any substantive use of AI technologies in the research, literature search, writing, or editing processes. Such disclosure must be formally stated within the Methodology section or the Acknowledgement section of the manuscript.
A suitable statement is: "During the preparation of this manuscript, the author(s) used [name of tool/service] for [purpose]. The author(s) reviewed, verified, edited, and approved all AI-assisted output and take full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, and final content of the manuscript."
5. Policy for the Editorial Team The use of AI by the editorial team is strictly limited to administrative support, formatting adjustments, and language editing assistance. As a form of transparency, the editorial board of Jurnal Ulumul Qur'an openly declares the use of Trinka AI for proofreading purposes and Gemini AI to assist in drafting the narratives for journal policies and guidelines. The utilization of these technologies is conducted in a measured manner, strictly adhering to national scientific journal accreditation regulations and based on the mutual agreement of the editorial team.
AI tools are strictly prohibited from replacing human scientific judgment in evaluating the scholarly quality of a manuscript. All final editorial decisions—whether accepting, requesting revisions, or rejecting a manuscript—are absolutely made independently by the handling editors based on human peer-review evaluations.
6. Policy for Reviewers Reviewers are assigned to provide a critical and objective assessment of scholarly manuscripts. Consequently, reviewers are prohibited from using generative AI tools to evaluate the substance of a manuscript or to construct peer-review reports in place of their own expert evaluation.
Furthermore, to preserve the fundamental confidentiality of unpublished manuscripts, reviewers are strictly forbidden from uploading, copying, or inputting any part or the entirety of an author's manuscript into any public or third-party AI platform. Inputting original manuscript texts into AI systems constitutes a severe breach of confidentiality ethics and infringes upon the intellectual property rights of the authors.
7. Handling Problematic AI Use If the journal suspects undisclosed or improper AI use, the editor may request clarification from the author. Depending on the case, the journal may require revision, reject the manuscript, issue a correction, or investigate the matter as possible publication misconduct. Questions, clarifications, or concerns about this policy should be directed to the editorial office at [email protected].
Approved by: Editorial Board of Jurnal Ulumul Qur'an: Jurnal Kajian Ilmu Al-Qur’an dan Tafsir
