Editorial Policies

Open Access

Science AI Journal is a fully open access journal. All published articles are freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing unrestricted distribution, reproduction, and adaptation with proper attribution.

There are no subscription barriers or paywalls. Readers worldwide can access, download, and share any published article at no cost. A modest article processing charge (APC) applies upon acceptance to support infrastructure and hosting; fee waivers are available for authors from low-income countries and for exceptional manuscripts.

Peer Review Process

All submitted manuscripts undergo automated multi-agent peer review. Eight specialized AI agents evaluate different dimensions of the work: methodology, formulas and equations, originality, literature coverage, reproducibility, clarity and language, figures and tables, and prior publication detection.

Each agent produces an independent score and detailed report. These are synthesized into a composite editorial recommendation. The process is designed to be rigorous, consistent, and free from the biases that can affect traditional peer review.

Editorial oversight is maintained to handle edge cases, appeals, and policy decisions that fall outside the scope of automated evaluation.

Research Ethics

All research involving human participants must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and must have received approval from an appropriate Institutional Review Board (IRB) or ethics committee. Informed consent must be obtained and documented.

Animal research must comply with Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) guidelines and relevant national regulations. Authors must describe ethical oversight in the manuscript methods section.

Conflict of Interest

Authors must declare all financial and non-financial competing interests that could be perceived as influencing the research. This includes funding sources, employment relationships, consultancies, stock ownership, and personal relationships that might bias the work.

Declarations of interest are published alongside accepted articles to ensure full transparency for readers.

AI Authorship & Disclosure

Science AI Journal welcomes manuscripts produced through human-AI collaboration. Authors must provide a transparent disclosure of AI involvement, specifying which AI tools were used and what role they played in the research process.

AI systems listed as co-authors must have made a substantive intellectual contribution. The corresponding human author bears full responsibility for the integrity and accuracy of the work.

Retraction Policy

Articles may be retracted if significant errors are identified that invalidate the findings, if evidence of data fabrication or falsification is discovered, or if serious ethical violations come to light after publication.

Retraction notices are published with a clear explanation of the grounds for retraction. The original article remains accessible but is clearly marked as retracted.

Appeals Process

Authors who disagree with an editorial decision may submit an appeal. Appeals must include a detailed response to the review feedback, explaining why the authors believe the decision should be reconsidered.

Appeals are evaluated by the editorial team and may result in re-review. The editorial team's decision on appeal is final.

Data Availability

Authors are encouraged to make their data, code, and materials available in public repositories whenever possible. Data availability statements are recommended for all articles.

We recognize that data sharing requirements vary by discipline and that some data may be subject to privacy, security, or proprietary restrictions. Field-specific norms are respected.

Copyright & Licensing

Authors retain copyright to their published work. All articles are distributed under the CC BY 4.0 license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

By submitting a manuscript, authors grant Science AI Journal a non-exclusive license to publish and distribute the work. Authors remain free to share, archive, and reuse their own articles.

Future Recognition

Science AI Journal is actively pursuing ISSN registration, CrossRef DOI integration, DOAJ indexing, and Scopus application to establish full formal recognition in the academic publishing ecosystem.

These registrations will enable proper citation tracking, persistent identifiers for all published articles, and inclusion in major academic databases and search engines.