AI Policies in Peer Review

“Reviewers should not upload a submitted manuscript or any part of it into any public or private generative AI tool or AI-assisted technologies”

“Reviewers should not upload the manuscript, or any part of it, into an AI tool”

“Reviewers conducting peer reviews for IEEE may not share information from an article with public artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for AI generation of text for the reviewer’s report. Doing so is considered a breach of confidentiality because AI systems generally learn from input.”

“It is prohibited to upload project proposals and manuscripts, in part or in whole, into a Gen AI tool for any purpose.”

“Disclosing any part of the submission or the peer review report itself to a text generation service (or any other third-party tool) is a breach of this confidentiality”

“the NIH prohibits NIH scientific peer reviewers from using natural language processors, large language models, or other generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies for analyzing and formulating peer review critiques”

“Reviewers may not enter any part of the manuscript into an LLM or other AI tool because this could breach the confidentiality of the manuscript.”

“Reviewers should not upload a submitted manuscript or any part of it into an AI tool as this may violate the authors’ confidentiality and proprietary rights”

“Reviewers are instructed to not submit confidential manuscripts, abstracts, or other text into a chatbot, language model, or similar tool.”

“Beyond this limited use, editors and peer reviewers are not permitted to upload manuscripts (or any parts of manuscripts including figures and tables) into AI Technology.”

“editors and peer reviewers must not upload files, images, or information from unpublished manuscripts into Generative AI tools.”

“Under no circumstances should reviewers upload manuscripts either in whole or in part, images, figures, tables, or any kind of communication relating to manuscripts that are under review to any GenAI tools”

“Reviewers must not: Input any part of a manuscript under review, including text, figures, tables, supplementary files, or associated communications, to GenAI tools”

“Do not talk about or share submissions with anyone or any LLMs.”

“May use AI to support peer review but must not upload manuscript content to unsecured or public AI tools”

“reviewers should preserve the confidentiality of the peer review process by not putting unpublished manuscripts that they are reviewing for BMJ Journals (or information about them) into publicly available AI tools where the security of the confidential information cannot be guaranteed.”

“AI tools can only be used in peer review for purposes that (i) do not place the confidentiality of manuscript content or data at risk, AND (ii) would not misrepresent the reviewer’s or editor’s own intellectual contributions. If you have questions about whether a particular AI use case would be considered acceptable, please email the journal office before you proceed.”

“Peer reviewers may use generative AI (GenAI) to help write and format the peer review reports, but they remain responsible for the content of the reports.”

“[Reviewers may not upload] confidential submissions, technical approaches described by authors in their submissions, or any information about the authors into any system managed by a third party, including LLMs, that does not promise to maintain the confidentiality of that information by reviewers, since the storage, indexing, learning, and utilization of such submissions may violate the author’s right to confidentiality”

“Reviewers may use generative AI or other third-party tools with the sole purpose of improving the quality and readability of reviewer reports for the author”

“Use AI to strengthen structure, aid constructive discussion and enhance quality assessment - not to outsource judgement.”

“If generative AI tools are used by editors or reviewers, this must be disclosed.”

“Because review materials are confidential, AI tools may only be used if their terms of use state that uploaded manuscripts or reports will not be used as training data.”

“referees may not use — in any aspect of the refereeing process — any LLM that might use uploaded material for training.”

“Policy B (Permissive): Allowed: Use of LLMs to help understand the paper and related works, and polish reviews. Submissions can be fed to privacy-compliant LLMs.”

“We permit limited and responsible use of AI tools to assist human writing of peer reviews and meta-reviews. However, it is mandatory to disclose use of AI tools.”