Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development

Declaration of generative AI in scientific writing

The use of generative AI in scientific writing must be declared by the authors in the submission step. Only in the writing process should generative AI and AI-assisted technologies be applied to enhance the language and readability of the manuscript. The generative AI technologies must not be utilized to analyze, discuss, and derive conclusions from data as part of the research process.

The usage of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in scientific writing must be expressed by adding a statement at the end of the manuscript when the paper is first submitted. The statement is to be added in a separate section before the references list and will be shown in the published article. The basic editing and formatting tools, such as tools used to check grammar, spelling, and the organization of references, are not considered generative AI and AI-assisted tools (services).

Suggested example for the declaration statement:

• Title of new section: Declaration of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process.
• Statement: Throughout the preparation of this manuscript, the author(s) have used [NAME TOOL / SERVICE] to [REASON]. The author(s) evaluated and corrected the text as needed following the use of [NAME TOOL / SERVICE], therefore assuming whole responsibility for the content of the published article.

AI-generated images and graphs are generally not permitted unless legally disclosed in captions and reviewed. 

Plagiarism Policy

All manuscripts under review or published with JEASD are subject to screening using the Plagiarism Prevention Software Turnitin. Plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics. Other violations include duplicate publication, data fabrication and falsification, and improper credit of author contribution. Thus, Plagiarism or Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior are unacceptable, and submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. It is necessary to mention that JEASD may ignore a duplicated manuscript of up to 20%.

The development of CrossCheck is a service that helps editors to verify the originality of papers. CrossCheck is powered by the Turnitin software. For a searchable list of all journals in the CrossCheck database, please visit https://www.turnitin.com/

All new submissions to JEASD are screened using https://www.turnitin.com/. Editorial board members may also choose to run a similarity report at any other point during the review process or post-publication. The default similarity report view gives the percentage of the text of the manuscript which has overlap with one or more published articles. Figures and equations cannot be checked at present. Note that a high similarity score does not necessarily indicate plagiarized text. A similarity score of 30% could mean 30% text in common with one source but could equally mean 1% text in common with 30 different sources. Re-used text that has been legitimately cited in the Bibliography may all contribute to the similarity score. The subject knowledge of an editorial expert is vital in order to interpret the CrossCheck report and determine whether there are any grounds for concern.

Digital Archiving

JEASD has electronic backup and preservation of access to the content of the journal via the archive system CLOCKSS. It offers decentralized and distributed preservation, seamless perpetual access, and preservation of the authentic original version of the content. In addition, all the journal’s published articles are now accessible through the journal’s page on the repository: https://iasj.net/iasj/journal/99

Backup

JEASD implements an additional backup policy to protect against data loss.

Onsite Backup: The onsite full server backups provide disaster recovery options to help protect against data loss or corruption. Onsite backups are run daily by the host and retained for 7 days by default. The backup is performed on the main hosting server hetzner, and on the substitute hosting server ovh.

Remote Backup: JEASD ensures 7-day backups of the OJS database and daily backups of the cPanel for disaster recovery.