Journal of Neurosurgery Academy

1. Policy Statement

The Journal recognizes that artificial intelligence (AI) and automated technologies are increasingly used in scholarly communication. These tools may support manuscript preparation and editorial workflows when used responsibly, transparently, and under appropriate human oversight. Authors, reviewers, editors, and journal staff remain fully accountable for their work and decisions.

2. Guidance for Authors

Permitted Uses

Authors may use AI-assisted tools for tasks such as language improvement, grammar correction, formatting assistance, data organization, coding support, or generating preliminary text, provided that such use does not compromise the accuracy, originality, or integrity of the manuscript.

Disclosure Requirements

Authors must disclose any substantive use of generative AI or automated content-generation tools during the preparation of the manuscript. The disclosure should identify the tool used and describe its role in the research or writing process. Routine language editing and formatting assistance generally do not require detailed reporting unless the journal specifically requests it.

Author Responsibility

Authors retain full responsibility for all content submitted to the Journal, including text, figures, tables, references, analyses, and conclusions. Authors must verify the accuracy, completeness, and originality of any AI-assisted output before submission and ensure that all cited sources are authentic and appropriately referenced.

Authorship and Citation

AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements.

Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used.

Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.

AI-generated content should not be cited as an authoritative scholarly source.

3. Guidance for Peer Reviewers and Editors

To protect confidentiality, maintain the integrity of peer review, and ensure accountability, reviewers and editors should not use generative AI systems to generate review reports, editorial decisions, or substantive evaluations of manuscripts.

Limited use of AI-assisted tools for language refinement, copyediting, or administrative support may be acceptable when manuscript confidentiality is protected and such use is disclosed to the Journal when appropriate.

All editorial judgments and publication decisions must be made by qualified human editors.

4. Journal Use of Automated Tools

The Journal may employ automated technologies to support editorial and publishing processes, including but not limited to plagiarism screening, reference checking, image analysis, reviewer identification, manuscript classification, or research integrity assessments.

Where such tools are routinely used, the Journal will maintain transparency regarding their application and will periodically evaluate their performance and reliability.

5. Human Oversight

Results produced by automated systems shall not be used as the sole basis for editorial decisions. Any findings generated through automated screening, similarity detection, image analysis, reviewer recommendation systems, or AI-detection technologies will be reviewed and verified by editors or designated journal staff before further action is taken.

6. Compliance

The Journal’s AI tools policy is in line with COPE position on Authorship and AI tools. Failure to disclose relevant AI use or misuse of AI tools that compromises research integrity, authorship standards, data reliability, or publication ethics may result in editorial action in accordance with the Journal's publication ethics and misconduct policies.