Generative Artificial Intelligence Use

1. Effective Date

This policy takes effect on June 1, 2026.

 

2. Scope

This policy applies to authors, reviewers, editors, members of the editorial team, and other individuals who participate in the submission, evaluation, editing, and publication processes of Ensayos Revista de Economia's manuscripts.

 

3. Principles

Ensayos Revista de Economía recognizes that generative artificial intelligence tools may support certain activities related to writing, linguistic revision, information organization, and improvement of communicative clarity. However, their use in scientific communication requires responsibility, transparency, human oversight, and strict respect for confidentiality, academic integrity, copyright, and editorial ethics.

Generative artificial intelligence tools cannot be recognized as authors, co-authors, reviewers, editors, or intellectually responsible parties for a manuscript, a review report, or an editorial decision. Authorship, review, editing, and editorial responsibility are assigned exclusively to individuals who can publicly attest to the integrity, originality, veracity, and traceability of the content presented, evaluated, or published.

 

4. Definitions

4.1. On the Concept of Generative Artificial Intelligence

For the purposes of this journal and following the Heredia Declaration [Penabad-Camacho et al. (2024)], generative artificial intelligence (AI) refers to any system, application, platform, or computational model capable of generating, modifying, analyzing, translating, summarizing, or assisting in the production of content through automated learning and information processing processes. This definition includes generative language models, conversational assistants, machine translation systems, and tools supporting writing, reviewing, or data analysis.

4.2. Declaration of Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence

The use of such tools shall be transparently declared by authors when they have substantially contributed to the development of the manuscript, without this implying the transfer of authorship, academic responsibility, or accountability, which rest exclusively with the authors.

4.3. Integrity of Materials Generated with Generative Artificial Intelligence

The journal will not accept images, tables, figures, databases, results, citations, or references generated, fabricated, modified, or simulated using generative artificial intelligence when this compromises scientific integrity, data traceability, copyright, reproducibility, or research veracity.

 

5. Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence by Authors

The use of generative artificial intelligence to create or modify images, graphics, visual resources, or analytical materials shall be explicitly declared and may be rejected by the journal if there is insufficient traceability, usage authorization, methodological justification, or a guarantee of academic integrity.

In all cases, authors shall retain the necessary documentation to explain the origin, processing, modification, and validation of the materials presented.

5.1. Permitted Uses

Authors may use generative artificial intelligence tools in a limited manner and under human supervision to:

  • Improve the clarity, spelling, grammar, style, or readability of the manuscript.
  • Perform preliminary translation assistance, provided that the final text is reviewed and validated by the authors.
  • Organize ideas, outlines, or the preliminary structure of the text without delegating the construction of arguments or scientific content.
  • Review the linguistic coherence of the manuscript.
  • Improve the formal presentation of fragments originally written by the authors.

In all cases, authors shall review, verify, and correct the manuscript and assume full responsibility for its final content.

5.2. Non-Permitted Uses

Authors shall not use generative artificial intelligence to:

  • Fabricate, alter, simulate, or manipulate data.
  • Generate research results that cannot be obtained through verifiable scientific procedures.
  • Create, modify, or manipulate images, tables, figures, graphs, or analytical materials without declaration, traceability, or methodological justification.
  • Invent citations, sources, bibliographic references, DOIs, institutional data, or documentary information.
  • Substitute for the authors' theoretical, methodological, statistical, or interpretive analysis.
  • Present AI-generated content as one's own without review, validation, or authorial responsibility.
  • Produce conclusions, findings, or scientific interpretations without support from the study's data and arguments.
  • Use generative artificial intelligence to conceal plagiarism, duplication, redundant publication, or unauthorized use of third-party content.

5.3. Declaration of Use by Authors.

When authors substantively use generative artificial intelligence in the preparation of the manuscript, they shall declare it in a section titled:

Declaration on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence

The declaration shall indicate:

  • Name of the tool used.
  • Version, when possible.
  • Specific purpose of use.
  • Sections or tasks in which it was employed.
  • Confirmation that the authors reviewed, verified, and assumed total responsibility for the final content.

It will not be necessary to declare the use of spell checkers, basic grammar tools, bibliographic managers, word processors, or translation systems used in an auxiliary manner, provided that they have not generated substantive content, arguments, analyses, results, or conclusions.

 

6. Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence by Reviewers

Manuscripts submitted for evaluation are confidential documents. For this reason, reviewers shall strictly protect the information received during the peer-review process and may not upload or copy the manuscript, or any part thereof, to any artificial intelligence tool.

6.1. Permitted Uses

Reviewers may use generative artificial intelligence tools in a limited manner to:

  • Improve the clarity, spelling, grammar, or style of their own comments.
  • Organize the writing of their review report, provided that the academic content has been directly prepared by the reviewer.
  • Review the readability of observations written by the reviewer themselves.

These uses are acceptable only when neither confidential information from the manuscript nor substantial fragments of the evaluated text are incorporated.

6.2. Non-Permitted Uses

Reviewers shall not use generative artificial intelligence to:

  • Upload, copy, transcribe, summarize, or share the complete manuscript.
  • Upload fragments of the manuscript, supplementary files, data, tables, figures, results, hypotheses, or appendices.
  • Share information about the authors' identities, when known, or any data derived from the editorial process.
  • Request that an artificial intelligence tool evaluate the manuscript.
  • Generate the review report.
  • Determine the editorial recommendation.
  • Automatically evaluate the manuscript's originality, thematic relevance, methodological soundness, argumentative consistency, or scientific quality.
  • Substitute their academic judgment with AI-generated responses.
  • Use unauthorized external tools that compromise the confidentiality of the review process.

6.3. Declaration of Use by Reviewers

When a reviewer uses any generative artificial intelligence tool to support the preparation of their comments, they shall declare it to the editor in the review report.

The declaration shall indicate:

  • Name of the tool used.
  • Specific purpose of use.
  • Confirmation that no confidential information from the manuscript was incorporated.
  • Confirmation that the reviewer verified and assumed full responsibility for the content of the submitted report.

The reviewer shall be responsible for the entire report submitted to the journal.

 

7. Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence by Editors and Members of the Editorial Team

Editors, associate editors, guest editors, editorial assistants, members of the editorial board, and editorial support staff shall preserve the confidentiality of manuscripts, review reports, internal communications, author data, reviewer data, and editorial decisions.

7.1. Permitted Uses

Editors and members of the editorial team may use technological support tools for:

  • Administrative tasks linked to editorial management.
  • Metadata standardization.
  • Review of the readability of their own editorial communications.
  • Linguistic correction of administrative texts or internal communications.
  • Support in the organization of non-confidential editorial information.
  • Similarity detection using specialized tools authorized by the journal.
  • Editorial management through institutional systems or authorized platforms that guarantee confidentiality and data protection.

These uses shall remain under human supervision and may not substitute for editorial judgment.

7.2. Non-Permitted Uses

Editors and members of the editorial team shall not use generative artificial intelligence to:

  • Upload, copy, transcribe, summarize, or share unpublished manuscripts.
  • Upload supplementary files, databases, tables, figures, results, or appendices of manuscripts.
  • Share review reports, editorial communications, personal data of authors or reviewers, editorial decisions, or internal deliberations.
  • Automatically select reviewers.
  • Issue editorial decisions.
  • Resolve discrepancies between review reports.
  • Determine whether to accept, modify, or reject manuscripts.
  • Autonomously evaluate the originality, scientific quality, thematic relevance, or methodological integrity of a contribution.
  • Substitute human editorial deliberation with AI-generated results.
  • Use unauthorized external tools that compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or traceability of the editorial process.

7.3. Editorial Responsibility

The final editorial decision shall be the exclusive responsibility of the journal's editorial team. No generative artificial intelligence tool may be considered responsible for an editorial decision, recommendation, review report, official communication, or the result of the evaluation process.

 

8. Violation of This Policy

Violation of this policy may result in one or more of the following measures:

  • Request for clarifications from authors, reviewers, or members of the editorial team.
  • Correction or expansion of declarations related to the use of generative artificial intelligence.
  • Rejection of the manuscript.
  • Dismissal of review reports.
  • Exclusion of reviewers from future editorial processes.
  • Issuance of post-publication corrections.
  • Adoption of additional editorial measures in accordance with the journal's Code of Ethics.

When the use of generative artificial intelligence affects the originality, veracity, confidentiality, data integrity, copyright, or transparency of the editorial process, the journal will consider it an improper use of generative artificial intelligence and will apply corresponding measures in accordance with its editorial policies and established code of ethics.

 

References

Penabad-Camacho, L., Penabad-Camacho, M. A., Mora-Campos, A., Cerdas-Vega, G., Morales-López, Y., Ulate-Segura, M., Méndez-Solano, A., Nova-Bustos, N., Vega-Solano, M. F., & Castro-Solano, M. M. (2024). Heredia Declaration: Principles on the use of Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Publishing. Revista Electrónica Educare, 28(S), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.15359/ree.28-S.19967