Publication Ethics and Responsibilities

Journal of Architecture, Design and Construction (JADC)

1. Roles, Duties, and Responsibilities of Authors

Authors are responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and scholarly value of the manuscripts submitted for publication. Authors must adhere to the principles of academic ethics as follows:

• Authors must submit only original research articles or academic manuscripts that have not been previously published and are not under consideration by any other journal or publication.
• Submitted manuscripts must not infringe upon copyright and must not contain plagiarism, duplication, or improper adaptation of the work of others without appropriate citation.
• Authors must prepare manuscripts in full compliance with the journal’s formatting requirements and submission guidelines.
• In the case of research involving human participants, communities, or sensitive data, authors must obtain approval from an appropriate Human Research Ethics Committee and clearly state the approval number or reference code in the section on ethical considerations of the manuscript.
• Authors must properly cite all sources, images, tables, or content derived from the work of others and must avoid excessive or inappropriate reproduction of such material.
• Authors must obtain the consent of all co-authors prior to submitting the manuscript for publication.
• Authors must transparently disclose any sources of funding (if applicable) and any potential conflicts of interest.
• Authors must respect the double-blind peer review process and must not attempt to identify or seek information about reviewers.
• Authors must accept the editorial decisions made in accordance with the journal’s established review and decision-making procedures.

 

2. Roles, Duties, and Responsibilities of Reviewers

Reviewers play a critical role in maintaining the academic quality and integrity of the journal and are required to adhere to the following ethical principles:

• Reviewers must possess appropriate expertise in the subject area relevant to the manuscript under review.
• Reviewers must carefully study and follow the journal’s review guidelines and evaluation criteria prior to conducting the review.
• Reviewers must evaluate manuscripts objectively, fairly, and honestly, without personal bias.
• Reviewers must not seek personal benefit or engage in any conflict of interest with the authors or the content of the manuscript.
• Reviewers should promptly inform the editor if they identify concerns regarding plagiarism, duplication, or significant overlap with other published works.
• Reviewers must respect the double-blind peer review process and must not attempt to identify or seek information about the authors.
• Reviewers must submit their review reports within the specified timeframe and notify the editor promptly if they are unable to complete the review as assigned.
• Reviewers may recommend relevant references or sources that could help improve the quality and scholarly value of the manuscript.

 

3. Roles, Duties, and Responsibilities of Editors

Editors are responsible for the quality, integrity, and credibility of all articles published in the journal and must perform their duties in accordance with ethical principles as follows:

• Editors have the authority to accept or reject manuscripts based on academic quality, significance, originality, and relevance to the scope of the journal.
• Editors must not consider manuscripts that have been previously published or are simultaneously under consideration by another journal or publication.
• Editors must treat all authors fairly and without discrimination.
• Editors must make decisions impartially and must not seek personal benefit or engage in any conflict of interest.
• Editors must maintain the confidentiality of information related to authors and reviewers and must not disclose such information to unauthorized parties.
• Editors must ensure that the manuscript review and decision-making process is conducted transparently, fairly, and in a manner that is auditable and accountable.

 

4. Guidelines for the Use and Citation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Research

The Journal of Architecture, Design and Construction (JADC) permits the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a supportive tool for scholarly work, under the conditions of transparency and accountability. Authors are required to:

• Specify the name and version of the AI tool used.
• Describe the purpose and nature of the AI usage.
• Indicate the period of use and the organization or entity that developed the AI tool.
• Disclose the limitations of AI use and the procedures undertaken for human verification and quality control.

 

AI tools must not be listed as co-authors, and authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and credibility of all content presented in the manuscript.

 

Example of AI Citation

• “This study used ChatGPT (version 5), developed by OpenAI, to analyze interview transcripts. The tool was accessed on 15 October 2024 via https://chat.openai.com.”

Appendix

 

Additional Examples of AI Use in Research Across Various Contexts

 

• AI for Natural Language Processing:

“Sentiment analysis of social media comments was conducted using the BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) model developed by Google AI Language, accessed via the Hugging Face Transformers library (version 4.28.1) on 20 September 2024.”

 

• AI for Image Generation:

“Illustrations in Chapter 3 were generated using Midjourney v5.2, an AI-based text-to-image generation tool developed by Midjourney, Inc. Images were created between 1–5 November 2024 via the Discord platform.”

 

• AI for Statistical Data Analysis:

“Trend analysis and forecasting were performed using Prophet version 1.1, a time-series forecasting library developed by Facebook’s Core Data Science team, executed via Python 3.9 on 12 December 2024 (Facebook, Inc., 2024).”

 

• AI for Language Translation:

“Translation of documents from English to Thai was conducted using the DeepL Translator API version 2.1, developed by DeepL GmbH, between 5–10 January 2025 via https://www.deepl.com/translator.”

 

• AI for Text Summarization:

“Summaries of academic articles in Appendix A were generated using Claude 3.5 Sonnet, a large language model developed by Anthropic, accessed via the Anthropic API on 18 February 2025.”

 

Disclosure of Limitations and Quality Control

For all examples, authors should additionally disclose limitations and quality assurance measures in the relevant sections of the research, for example:

• “Outputs generated by AI were reviewed and revised by subject-matter experts to ensure accuracy and appropriateness. Limitations of AI use in this process include [specify specific limitations], which were addressed by [describe mitigation or verification procedures].”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recommended Locations for AI Use Disclosure in Research Manuscripts

Proper disclosure of AI use should be provided in appropriate sections of the manuscript, as illustrated below:

• Methodology:

“In qualitative data analysis, GPT-4 (OpenAI, 2024) was used to assist in categorizing and identifying key themes from interview data, accessed via API on 5 March 2025.”

 

• Footnotes or Endnotes:

“¹ Illustrations in this chapter were generated using DALL·E 3 (OpenAI, 2024) based on researcher-defined prompts, accessed on 10 April 2025.”

 

• Discussion:

“Market trend analysis utilized Prophet (Facebook, Inc., 2024)², enabling more accurate projections of industry growth over the next five years.”

 

• Appendix:

“Appendix B: Details of AI models used in the research. B.1 Sentiment Analysis: BERT (Google AI Language, 2023), version 2.11.0, accessed via Hugging Face Transformers…”

 

• Bibliography:

“OpenAI. (2024). GPT-4 [Computer software]. https://openai.com/gpt-4”

 

• Limitations:

“The use of Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Anthropic, 2024) for document summarization may present limitations in interpreting domain-specific contexts; therefore, all summaries were reviewed and revised by subject experts.”

 

• Acknowledgements:

“The authors acknowledge DeepMind for permitting the use of AlphaFold (2024) in protein structure prediction for this research.”

 

• Figure/Table Captions:

“Figure 3: Diagram illustrating relationships among variables, created using Tableau (2024) and enhanced with DALL·E 3 (OpenAI, 2024).”

 

• Results:

“Large-scale text analysis using Natural Language Processing employed SpaCy (Explosion AI, 2024)³, revealing that…”

 

• Introduction or Literature Review:

“This study builds upon prior applications of AI in medical data analysis by employing IBM Watson (IBM, 2024)⁴ to process large patient datasets.”

 

Final Note

 

Appropriate disclosure of AI use enables readers to understand research methods, limitations, and verification processes, and supports transparency and reproducibility. Authors should ensure that AI citations and disclosures comply with the referencing guidelines of the journal and relevant academic institutions.