JOINNew Scholarly Kitchen post: Classifying AI Use in Manuscript Preparation – A Recommendation
It is almost a cliché to say that AI has changed the academic publishing industry – for authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and publishers themselves. In 2023, STM published guidelines outlining ethical and practical considerations regarding the use of AI tools in the publication process. In the two years since, technology has progressed significantly, creating even more possibilities to use AI to assist the dissemination of research outputs. In particular, recent developments in generative AI (GenAI) have led to rapid expansion in the capabilities of machine tools to assist with writing, editing, formatting, and even enhancing research manuscripts with images and diagrams.
As a result, there is a need for transparency around the use of AI in research dissemination. Publishers often provide guidelines for authors to transparently declare any human assistance in manuscript preparation, for example if they have used professional language editing services.