Generative AI tools cannot be listed as authors because they cannot take responsibility for a manuscript, approve the final version, disclose conflicts of interest, or enter into publishing agreements.
Authors must disclose substantive use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in the preparation of a manuscript. The disclosure should identify the tool, version where available, purpose, and manner of use. Routine spelling, grammar, formatting, and reference-management assistance does not require disclosure unless the tool generated or materially altered scholarly content.
Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, citations, permissions, confidentiality, and integrity of all submitted content. Authors must verify AI-generated statements and references and must not submit confidential, personal, copyrighted, or proprietary information to an AI service without appropriate authorization.
The use of AI to fabricate or manipulate data, images, citations, reviewer reports, or identities is prohibited. AI-assisted analysis that forms part of the research methodology must be described sufficiently for evaluation and reproducibility.
Editors and reviewers must not upload submitted manuscripts or confidential review material to generative AI tools unless the journal has formally approved a secure system, the processing complies with applicable privacy and confidentiality requirements, and affected parties have been appropriately informed.
Authors should preserve the data, code, protocols, and other materials underlying their findings in accordance with disciplinary standards and applicable legal, ethical, contractual, and privacy requirements.
Where possible, authors are encouraged to deposit supporting materials in a trusted repository and cite them using a persistent identifier. Every research article should contain a Data Availability Statement explaining where the supporting data can be found or why access is restricted.
Suggested statements include:
- “The data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.”
- “No new data were created or analyzed in this study.”
Editors or reviewers may request supporting data during assessment. Failure to provide data without a valid reason may result in rejection or post-publication action.
Names, email addresses, affiliations, ORCID identifiers, and other information submitted to the journal are used exclusively for editorial, publication, integrity, indexing, and journal communication purposes. The journal processes only the information reasonably necessary for these functions and does not sell personal data.
The journal may share relevant information with editors, reviewers, publishing service providers, DOI registration agencies, indexing services, archiving services, and research-integrity bodies where necessary and lawful. The journal will take reasonable measures to protect confidential and personal information.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission before including identifiable personal information about other individuals in a manuscript.
The journal is committed to long-term preservation and continued access to its content. Published issues and articles are retained on the journal’s website and deposited with the National Library of Armenia for independent preservation and public access. This deposit arrangement is intended to preserve access to the journal’s scholarly record if publication is interrupted or the journal’s own website becomes unavailable.