TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Artificial Intelligence Policy
  • For Reviewers
    • AI assistance
    • Generative AI
    • Undisclosed or Inappropriate use of Generative AI
• Further information

Artificial Intelligence Policy

Sage recognises the value of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to help authors in the research and writing process. Sage welcomes developments in this area to enhance opportunities for generating ideas, accelerating research discovery, synthesising, or analysing findings, polishing language, or structuring a submission.

Large language models (LLMs) or Generative AI offer opportunities for acceleration in research and its dissemination. While these opportunities can be transformative, they are unable to replicate human creative and critical thinking. Sage’s policy on the use of AI technology has been developed to assist authors, reviewers and editors to make good judgements about the ethical use of such technology.

For Reviewers

The use of AI or LLMs for Editorial work presents confidentiality and copyright issues. The tool or model will learn from what it receives over time and may use it to provide outputs to others.

AI assistance

Reviewers may wish to use Generative AI to improve the quality of the language in their review.  If they do so, they maintain responsibility for the content, accuracy and constructive feedback within the review.

Generative AI

Reviewers using ChatGPT or other Generative AI tools to generate review reports inappropriately will not be invited to review for the journal and their review will not be included in the final decision.

Undisclosed or Inappropriate use of Generative AI

Reviewers suspecting the inappropriate or undisclosed use of generative AI in a submission should flag their concerns with the Journal Editor.

Sage and the Journal Editor will lead a joint investigation into concerns raised about the inappropriate or undisclosed use of Generative AI in a published article. The investigation will be undertaken in accordance with guidance issued by COPE and our internal policies. 

Further information

• Using AI in peer review and publishing
• Assistive and Generative AI Guidelines for Authors
• New white paper launch: Generative AI in Scholarly Communications
• Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)’s position statement on Authorship and AI tools
• World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) recommendations on chat bots, ChatGPT and scholarly manuscripts