Artificial Intelligence (AI) Usage Policy

The journal *Sociológica* (Mexico) recognizes that artificial intelligence (AI) tools can be useful as an aid in minor writing tasks. This policy applies to everyone involved in the editorial process: authors, reviewers, and editors. This policy is based on the Ten Ethical Principles for the Use of Artificial Intelligence at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM, 2026), which establishes the following guiding principles for the use of AI in university activities: honesty and responsibility in declaring authorship and supervising generated content; transparency and accountability, so that the use of AI is traceable and justifiable; the protection of personal data and intellectual property; impartiality in the auditing of processes; legality and security in compliance with applicable regulations; and sustainability, understood as critical awareness of the environmental, economic, and energy impacts of using these tools.

Authors

  • Permitted uses: spelling, grammar, or style corrections; translation of texts or quotations; rephrasing sentences to improve clarity.
  • Prohibited uses: generating ideas, writing original sections of the manuscript, producing or altering images, analyzing data, or drawing conclusions.
  • Authors must disclose any permitted use of AI in the acknowledgments section of the manuscript, specifying the tool and its purpose.
  • In addition, authors must provide the journal with a Statement on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in an attached document, detailing the tool used, its version, date of use, purpose, and the prompts employed. This information will be strictly confidential and will not form part of the published article.
  • Responsibility: Authors are solely responsible for the accuracy, validity, and originality of all content in the manuscript, regardless of the use of AI tools.

Reviewers

  • Reviewers may use AI tools solely to improve the wording of their evaluation reports, not to generate them. If they do so, they must inform the Academic Editorial Office.

Editors

  • The Editorial Board and the Academic and Technical Editorial Office may use automated tools for logistical purposes—such as similarity detection and identifying reviewers—but not for making editorial decisions.