Editorial values

RMxAA operates under editorial policies designed to guarantee the integrity and quality of all published material, as well as to maintain strict confidentiality during the peer-review process. The journal adheres to the principles of transparency, inclusion, and global access. At all times, respect for transparency, inclusivity, and global access to all our publications is a priority.

All members of the Editorial Board have signed and accepted a confidentiality document, in which they express that they have received, read, and accepted the principles, values, and rules of conduct contained in the Code of Ethics of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México approved by the University Council on July 1, 2015, the Code of Ethics and Scientific-Academic Integrity approved by the Internal Council of the IA-UNAM on November 4, 2020, and commit to conduct their actions in strict adherence to these Instruments.

Originality verification procedure

The Editorial Office is responsible for verifying the originality of the submitted work. Both the members of the Scientific Editorial Board and the referees can check that a contribution has not been previously published in any other journal, or that the main results of a work have not been previously published by any member of the authorship group in other journals. In the case of partial texts included by the authorship group in other publications (e.g., technical descriptions, methodologies similar to those of previous works), it will always be recommended to remove such texts and replace them with direct citations, or to clearly indicate the differences with respect to previous texts.

Artificial intelligence use policy

The members of the authorship group must clearly indicate if they used artificial intelligence (AI) codes for their analyses or even for the drafting of their manuscripts. At the discretion of the editorial group, these inclusions may or may not be acceptable or relevant. Under no circumstances are works accepted where the majority or all of the analyses or texts have been carried out using artificial intelligence large language models (AI LLM).

Our Editorial Policy on the use of Artificial Intelligence

The editorial group may, at its discretion, use automatic codes to check citations or references. However, during the copyediting process, we use humans to double-check the complete list of references and the validity of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). The current RMxAA policy does not involve large language models in this part of the manuscript production process because of the potential danger of these models producing false references or errors due to “AI hallucination”, and the actual uncertainty of their use for unknown purposes.

During the copyediting process, RMxAA editors may use specialized software to detect occurrences of plagiarism and self-plagiarism. RMxAA editors may also use specialized software to check punctuation and revise academic English language. Under no circumstances are AI LLMs used to automate the copyediting of any contributions, either partially or totally.