Declaration on Independent Work and the Use of AI Tools
During the signing of the Author Statements, authors must provide a declaration regarding the following:
- I confirm that the submitted Article is the result of original and independent academic work by the author(s), based on our own intellectual effort, analysis, and interpretation.
- No part of the manuscript was written, translated, paraphrased, or otherwise generated by artificial intelligence tools, bots, automated systems, or machine learning algorithms (e.g., ChatGPT, Bard, Gemini, Claude, DeepL, etc.).
- The manuscript does not contain automatically generated content or data visualizations created using AI software, and any tools used (e.g., for grammar checking or referencing) were employed under human supervision without altering the scientific substance.
- I/we affirm full responsibility for the content, structure, arguments, and conclusions of the manuscript.
- I/we are fully aware of the ethical responsibilities and possible academic consequences of misrepresentation, including the undisclosed use of AI-based technologies in academic publishing.