Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) usage guidelines for scholarly publishing: a cross-sectional study of medical journals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has developed rapidly and been increasingly used in scholarly publishing, so it is urgent to examine guidelines for its usage. This cross-sectional study aims to examine the coverage and type of recommendations of GAI usage guidelines among medical journals and how these factors relate to journal characteristics.

Methods

From the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) list for medicine in 2022, we generated two groups of journals: top SJR ranked journals (N = 200) and random sample of non-top SJR ranked journals (N = 140). For each group, we examined the coverage of author and reviewer guidelines across four categories: no guidelines, external guidelines only, own guidelines only, and own and external guidelines. We then calculated the

SUBMITTER: Yin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11816781 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature