Artificial Intelligence (AI) Usage Policy

Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Generative AI Policy

Catalyx : Journal of Process Chemistry and Technology supports responsible AI use while maintaining human accountability, research integrity, confidentiality, scientific validity, and transparency.

HUMAN ACCOUNTABILITY AI DISCLOSURE CONFIDENTIALITY
✓ AI may assist manuscript preparation. ✓ Meaningful AI use must be disclosed.
✓ Authors remain fully responsible for all content. ✕ AI tools cannot be authors or co-authors.
✕ Reviewers/editors must not upload confidential manuscripts to AI. ✕ AI must not replace human scientific or editorial judgment.
1. Use of AI by Authors

Authors may use generative AI or AI-assisted technologies to support activities such as language improvement, literature organization, idea development, computational assistance, coding support, data exploration, or manuscript preparation. AI tools must not replace the authors' critical thinking, scientific judgment, experimental interpretation, chemical reasoning, engineering analysis, or original scholarly contribution.

Authors are responsible for:

  • verifying factual accuracy and checking references generated by AI;
  • reviewing and substantially editing AI-assisted content;
  • checking for bias, hallucination, fabricated citations, incorrect chemical information, unsafe recommendations, or misleading interpretations;
  • protecting confidential, personal, copyrighted, proprietary, and unpublished data;
  • independently validating AI-assisted calculations, chemical structures, process conditions, simulations, code, or analytical outputs; and
  • ensuring that the final manuscript represents the authors' own scholarly work.
Important: Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, scientific validity, safety implications, and ethical compliance of all submitted content, regardless of whether AI tools were used.
2. AI Disclosure

Meaningful use of generative AI in manuscript preparation must be disclosed in a separate AI Declaration. The declaration should identify the tool used, its purpose, and the extent of human review and oversight.

Suggested AI Declaration
The authors used [tool/model name] for [specific purpose]. All AI-assisted outputs were critically reviewed, scientifically verified, and substantially revised by the authors. The authors take full responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, originality, and scientific validity of the manuscript.

Basic spelling, grammar, or punctuation checks do not normally require disclosure. If AI forms part of the research method, process simulation, data analysis, modelling, coding, optimization, or experimental workflow, its use must be described in sufficient detail in the Methods section.

3. AI and Authorship

AI tools, chatbots, and language models must not be listed as authors or co-authors. Authorship requires human responsibility for the integrity of the work, approval of the final manuscript, accountability for its scientific content, and the ability to respond to questions regarding experimental procedures, calculations, chemical interpretations, process design, and research conclusions.

4. AI-Generated Images, Figures & Artwork

Generative AI must not be used to create, manipulate, obscure, remove, or introduce features in research images, microscopy images, spectra, chromatograms, experimental photographs, process diagrams, or figures submitted as scientific evidence.

An exception may apply when AI-assisted imaging, image analysis, pattern recognition, modelling, or visualization is an explicit part of the research design or methodology. In such cases, authors must describe the tool, model/version, procedure, input data, validation process, and its role in generating or interpreting research data in the Methods section.

5. Use of AI by Reviewers

Submitted manuscripts are confidential documents. Reviewers must not upload manuscripts, manuscript excerpts, experimental data, spectra, chemical structures, process information, supporting files, or review reports into generative AI systems.

Peer review is a human scholarly responsibility. AI tools must not be used to generate scientific assessments, evaluate experimental validity, determine chemical or engineering credibility, assess manuscript quality, or determine review recommendations. Reviewers remain personally responsible for the content and integrity of their reports.

6. Use of AI by Editors

Editors must not upload submitted manuscripts, confidential correspondence, experimental datasets, reviewer reports, unpublished chemical or process information, or editorial decision letters into public generative AI systems.

AI must not replace human editorial judgment or be used to determine acceptance, revision, or rejection. Editors remain fully responsible for editorial evaluation, communication, scientific oversight, and final publication decisions.

7. AI in the Publication Workflow

The journal may use appropriately controlled AI-assisted technologies for limited technical and administrative purposes, with human oversight.

✓ Technical submission checks ✓ Duplicate-submission detection
✓ Research-integrity screening ✓ Reviewer matching support
✓ Copyediting and production assistance ✓ Identification of technical inconsistencies
Human oversight remains mandatory throughout all editorial and publication processes.

Violations & Consequences

Misuse or undisclosed use of AI may be handled under the journal's publication-ethics procedures. Depending on severity, actions may include request for clarification, manuscript rejection, correction, retraction, institutional notification, or restrictions on future submissions. Serious cases involving fabricated scientific information, manipulated evidence, unsafe technical recommendations, or falsified experimental results may trigger additional research-integrity review.

Policy Governance

This policy follows principles of transparency, accountability, confidentiality, human oversight, fairness, intellectual-property protection, scientific validity, laboratory and process-safety awareness, and research integrity. It will be reviewed periodically as AI technologies and international publication standards evolve.