Generative AI Policies

DIRASATUL IBTIDAIYAH: Jurnal Pendidikan Dasar implements a comprehensive policy on the use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies. This policy aligns with the international standards established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and major global publishers. It aims to ensure transparency, academic integrity, and confidentiality among authors, reviewers, and editors.

1. Guidelines for Authors

Scope of Use

The journal recognizes that generative AI tools (such as large language models, chatbots, and advanced research tools) can assist researchers in improving language quality, text clarity, and manuscript organization. However, these technologies must only assist authors and should never replace human critical thinking, critical analysis, or pedagogical evaluation. Authors remain ultimately and fully accountable for the entire content of their submitted work.

Author Obligations

When preparing a manuscript with the assistance of AI tools, authors must:

Verify Accuracy: Systematically check all AI-generated text, data, and citations. AI tools are known to fabricate academic references or introduce subtle factual errors.
Maintain Originality: Thoroughly edit and adapt all material to ensure the manuscript represents the author’s own authentic analysis, interpretation, and insights into primary education.
Ensure Data Privacy: Verify the terms and conditions of the AI tools used. Authors must not input confidential research, field observations, or personal data that might violate intellectual property or data privacy rights.

Disclosure Requirement

Basic grammar, spelling, or punctuation checks do not require declaration. However, any substantial use of generative AI tools in manuscript preparation or the research process must be formally disclosed upon submission:

Authors must include a separate AI Declaration Statement in their manuscript, specifying the name of the tool, its version, and the purpose of its use.
If AI was used as part of the research method, it must be detailed reproducibly within the Research Method section.

Authorship Restrictions

No AI Authorship: AI tools cannot be listed or cited as an author or co-author.
Authorship implies legal, ethical, and academic responsibilities that only human researchers can perform, including the capacity to approve the final draft and guarantee its empirical integrity.

Figures, Images, and Artwork

Strict Prohibition: The use of generative AI to create, enhance, alter, remove, or obscure specific features within figures, images, charts, or graphical data is strictly prohibited.
Allowed Adjustments: Standard modifications like adjusting brightness, contrast, or color balance are permitted, provided they do not hide or distort the original information.
Exceptions: AI-driven imaging approaches are only permitted if they represent a core part of the research design (e.g., computational text analysis or specific data profiling), which must be fully documented in the Methods section. The journal reserves the right to request pre-AI adjusted raw images for verification.

2. Guidelines for Reviewers

Confidentiality & Intellectual Property

The double-blind peer-review process is a strictly confidential process based entirely on human expertise and trust.

No AI Uploads: Reviewers are strictly prohibited from uploading a submitted manuscript, or any part of it, into generative AI tools. Doing so constitutes a severe violation of the authors' confidentiality, intellectual property rights, and data privacy regulations.
Review Reports: Reviewers must not use AI tools to generate, outline, or draft peer review evaluations. Furthermore, reviewers must not upload their final evaluation reports into AI platforms even solely for language or readability enhancement to prevent leaking confidential article details into public AI datasets.