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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Guide

In this section, the UT Southwestern Health Sciences Library and Digital Learning Center (Library) has summarized the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assisted Technologies by submitted authors from select organizations and journal publishers.  The list is not exhaustive.

As the Library cannot confirm the 100% accuracy on the publisher's or individual journal’s position on the use of AI Assisted Technologies, it is recommended that you use the provided information as a starting point of your review of the publisher's and/or journal’s Editorial Policies and Author Guidelines related to AI Assisted Technologies.

AI and Publishing Guidelines - Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an international nonprofit scientific association established in 1849, publishes: Science, Science Advances, Science Immunology, Science Robotics, Science Signaling, and Science Translational Medicine.

Editorial Policies – this section outlines the Editorial Policies for all Science Journals. For journal-specific Information for Authors, see the links at the bottom of the General Policies webpage.

Authorship

Authors in Science journals must fulfill the criteria, which are informed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) definition of authorship and specific listed criteria.

Image and Text Integrity

  • Plagiarism – is by the US Office of Research Integrity to “include both the theft or misappropriation of intellectual property and the substantial unattributed textual copying of another's work.” Substantive re-use of text or figures previously published by a current author without appropriate citation is considered self-plagiarism. The Science journals use the Crossref Similarity Check service to detect plagiarism and follow guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in dealing with cases of suspected plagiarism.
  • Artificial intelligence (AI) – text generated from AI, machine learning, or similar algorithmic tools cannot be used in papers published in Science journals, nor can the accompanying figures, images, or graphics be the products of such tools, without explicit permission from the editors. In addition, an AI program cannot be an author of a Science journal paper. A violation of this policy constitutes scientific misconduct.
  • Images – presented presented in research papers should correctly represent the original data. No part of a digital image may be selectively manipulated or altered. When figures are assembled from multiple images or non-contiguous portions of the same image, a line or space should indicate the border between the separate parts. Science journal editors may use Proofig to screen images.

Disclaimer

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Guide provides an introduction to this evolving field for faculty, fellows, residents, postdocs, students, and staff. Due to the rapid advancement of this emerging technology, information in the Guide may become outdated at times. 

For information on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Security and Privacy, see Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Security and Privacy - Information Resources (utsouthwestern.net), VPN/On Campus access only.  NOTE:  this Guide supplements but does not supersede information provided by UT Southwestern or University of Texas policies and guidelines.