Information For Editors

Editors play a critical role in maintaining the integrity, fairness, transparency, and credibility of the scholarly publication process. All submitted manuscripts, reviewer reports, editorial communications, and publication decisions must therefore be treated as confidential materials.

Editors must not upload manuscripts, reviewer comments, editorial correspondence, decision letters, or confidential author information into public Generative AI systems or external AI-assisted platforms. Such actions may compromise confidentiality, intellectual property rights, data privacy, and the integrity of the editorial process.

The use of Generative AI technologies to make editorial decisions, evaluate manuscript quality, determine acceptance or rejection outcomes, or replace human editorial judgement is not permitted. Editorial decision-making requires expert scholarly evaluation, ethical reasoning, contextual interpretation, disciplinary understanding, and professional responsibility that can only be exercised by qualified human editors.

Editors may use institutionally approved or publisher-supported technologies for administrative support activities such as plagiarism screening, technical checks, reviewer identification, workflow management, or metadata organisation provided that such systems comply with confidentiality, privacy, and ethical publishing standards.

Editors remain fully responsible and accountable for:

• editorial evaluations,
• publication decisions,
• communication with authors and reviewers,
• ethical oversight,
• and the integrity of the publication process.

Where concerns arise regarding inappropriate AI usage, undisclosed AI-generated content, fabricated references, manipulated figures, or potential ethical violations, editors may initiate further investigation in accordance with the journal’s publishing ethics and editorial policies.

IJNIA remains committed to supporting responsible technological innovation while ensuring that scholarly publishing continues to be guided by human expertise, ethical accountability, intellectual integrity, and professional judgement. The journal will continue to monitor developments in AI technologies and may revise or expand these policies as emerging practices, risks, and opportunities evolve within architecture, digital construction, urban systems, and global built environment research.