Ethical guidelines and statements

Analele Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iaşi (Matematică) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and to preventing publication malpractice. All parties involved in the act of publishing (authors, journal editors, peer reviewers, and the publisher) must agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior.

1. Authors’ Responsibilities

  • Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that their work is entirely original. If authors have used the work and/or words of others, this must be appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
  • Multiple or Concurrent Publication: Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
  • Acknowledgment of Sources: Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
  • Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study.
  • Fundamental Errors in Published Works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

2. Reviewers’ Responsibilities

  • Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
  • Promptness: Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.
  • Confidentiality: Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
  • Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
  • Conflict of Interest: Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

3. Editors’ Responsibilities

  • Publication Decisions: The editor of the journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published, based on the validation of the work in question, its importance to researchers and readers, and the reviewers’ comments.
  • Fair Play: An editor will evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
  • Confidentiality: The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
  • Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author.

4. Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

To safeguard research integrity and protect intellectual property, the journal applies strict rules regarding generative AI and AI-assisted tools:

  • For Authors: Generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Large Language Models, or similar software) cannot be listed as an author or co-author. Authorship carries legal and ethical responsibilities that only humans can hold. If AI tools were used during the research, data analysis, writing process, or generation of mathematical visualizations, their use must be transparently disclosed within the manuscript (e.g., in the Acknowledgments). Authors remain fully accountable for the absolute accuracy of mathematical proofs and references.
  • For Reviewers: Reviewers are strictly prohibited from uploading a submitted manuscript, abstract, or any part of it into generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, or automated translators). Doing so violates peer-review confidentiality, as these commercial systems may use the input data to train their models. Reviewers are also prohibited from using generative AI to write peer-review reports, as evaluation requires human critical judgment.

For Editors: Editors must treat all submitted manuscripts with absolute confidentiality and are prohibited from uploading manuscripts or editorial correspondence into AI tools for evaluation, summarizing, or decision-making assistance. Final decisions regarding acceptance or rejection must be made entirely by human editors.