AI and AI-Assisted Technologies

Policy on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI-Assisted Technologies

Transparency • Human Accountability • Responsible Use

EL-Ghiroh: Jurnal Studi Keislaman recognizes that artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies can support academic research, scholarly writing, and scientific communication in Islamic studies and related disciplines. However, their use must not replace human intellectual responsibility, critical thinking, scholarly judgment, research integrity, or accountability. The journal therefore requires the transparent, responsible, and ethical use of AI and AI-assisted technologies throughout manuscript preparation, submission, peer review, and publication.

Use of AI by Authors

Authors may use AI and AI-assisted technologies where appropriate, provided that their use complies with the principles of research integrity, transparency, confidentiality, intellectual property, data protection, and applicable ethical standards.

Authors remain fully responsible for all content submitted to and published by the journal, including content generated, developed, or modified with the assistance of AI technologies.

• Authors must verify the accuracy, validity, originality, and academic appropriateness of all AI-assisted content.

• Authors must independently verify references, quotations, research data, statistical results, factual statements, and other information generated or suggested by AI systems against reliable and verifiable sources.

• Authors must ensure that AI-assisted content does not introduce fabricated information, false references, plagiarism, unsupported interpretations, misleading claims, bias, or other research-integrity problems.

• In research involving the Qur'an, hadith, Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir), Islamic theology, Islamic philosophy, and the works of Muslim scholars, authors must carefully verify the authenticity, accuracy, context, and scholarly interpretation of all sources. AI-generated responses must not replace direct engagement with primary Islamic sources and established academic literature.

• Authors conducting research in Islamic education, Islamic law, Islamic thought, da'wah, or social and religious studies must ensure that AI-assisted analyses are methodologically appropriate and supported by verifiable evidence.

• Authors remain responsible for obtaining any necessary ethical approval, informed consent, permission, or authorization associated with their research.

• Confidential, sensitive, personal, proprietary, or unpublished information must not be entered into external AI systems where doing so could violate confidentiality, privacy, intellectual property, research ethics, contractual obligations, or applicable laws.

Disclosure of Generative AI Use

Authors must disclose substantive use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in preparing a manuscript when these technologies have contributed beyond routine spelling and grammar correction, language editing, or formatting.

Where disclosure is required, authors must identify the AI tool or service used and briefly explain its purpose and contribution to the research or manuscript. This includes the generation or development of substantive text, the analysis or interpretation of research findings, the processing of research data, and other significant intellectual contributions supported by AI.

Depending on the nature of the use, the disclosure should be included in the Methods section, Acknowledgments, or a dedicated AI Use Disclosure Statement.

Authors must ensure that the disclosure accurately reflects how AI was used and does not misrepresent their intellectual contributions, research procedures, or scholarly responsibilities.

Example AI Disclosure Statement

During the preparation of this manuscript, the authors used [name of AI tool/service] for [specific purpose]. The authors reviewed and verified the resulting content and take full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and final content of the manuscript.

AI Cannot Be an Author

AI systems, large language models, chatbots, and other automated tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors of manuscripts submitted to EL-Ghiroh: Jurnal Studi Keislaman.

Authorship requires intellectual contribution, scholarly responsibility, and accountability that can only be attributed to human contributors. Human authors remain fully accountable for the entire submitted and published work, including content generated or modified with the assistance of AI technologies.

AI-Generated Output as a Source

Generative AI must not be treated as an authoritative scholarly source. Authors are responsible for locating, reading, evaluating, and citing original and reliable scholarly sources that support the claims made in their manuscripts. References, quotations, and factual information suggested or generated by AI systems must be independently verified before inclusion in a manuscript.

In Islamic studies, authors must refer directly to appropriate primary sources and credible scholarly literature when discussing the Qur'an, hadith, tafsir, fiqh, Islamic theology, Islamic philosophy, and the intellectual contributions of Muslim scholars.

AI-generated interpretations must not be presented as established scholarly opinions without appropriate verification. Authors must accurately represent the context, authenticity, and meaning of Islamic sources and acknowledge relevant scholarly differences where applicable.

AI-Generated or AI-Assisted Data, Images, and Analyses

When AI technologies form part of the research methodology, including data processing, classification, prediction, analysis, simulation, image processing, textual analysis, or other substantive research procedures, authors must describe their use with sufficient detail to permit appropriate scholarly evaluation.

For research involving Islamic texts, religious discourse, educational practices, social and religious phenomena, or digital religious communication, authors should explain the role of AI in analyzing texts, interpreting data, or identifying patterns where relevant.

Authors must ensure that AI-generated or AI-assisted figures, images, tables, datasets, transcripts, and other research materials comply with applicable ethical, copyright, licensing, privacy, and research integrity requirements.

AI must not be used to fabricate or falsify research data, manipulate evidence, misrepresent religious sources, or produce misleading representations of research findings.

AI-Generated Content Screening

EL-Ghiroh: Jurnal Studi Keislaman may use appropriate automated tools, including AI-writing detection software, as part of its editorial screening procedures to support the assessment of manuscript originality and compliance with the journal's AI policy.

Where an AI-writing indicator raises concerns, the editorial team may conduct additional assessment and request clarification, disclosure of relevant AI use, supporting information, or manuscript revision where appropriate.

An AI-detection percentage is not conclusive evidence of AI use or research misconduct. Automated detection results must be interpreted cautiously and reviewed alongside the manuscript's content, the author's disclosure, the quality of the research, and other relevant evidence. Editorial decisions remain subject to human assessment.

Any numerical indicator adopted by the journal as an internal screening guideline must not be treated as an automatic acceptance or rejection threshold. A manuscript with a low detection indicator may still require further assessment if other concerns arise, while a manuscript with a high indicator must not be considered to constitute misconduct solely on the basis of an automated result.

Use of Generative AI by Peer Reviewers

Peer reviewers must protect the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and all materials associated with the review process. Reviewers must not upload confidential manuscripts, manuscript extracts, unpublished data, figures, or other protected materials to external generative AI systems where doing so could compromise confidentiality, privacy, intellectual property, or research integrity.

Generative AI must not replace the reviewer's independent scholarly assessment. Review reports must reflect the reviewer's own expertise, critical evaluation, and academic judgment. Any permitted use of AI for limited language editing must not compromise confidentiality or alter the substance of the review.

Reviewers remain responsible for the accuracy, fairness, confidentiality, and integrity of their review reports.

Use of Generative AI by Editors

Editors must maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts, unpublished research materials, reviewer reports, and editorial communications. Confidential content must not be uploaded to external generative AI systems unless such use is explicitly authorized by th