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Author Instructions

2. Risks intellectual property infringement
3. May compromise personal data in identifiable content
Review integrity standards:
• Peer review must remain human-driven – AI tools cannot replace critical scholarly judgment.
• Reviewers must not use AI for manuscript evaluation due to risks of:
1. Inaccurate/incomplete assessments
2. Algorithmic bias
Declaration requirement: Reviewers retain full accountability for their reports, if any aspect of the manuscript’s evaluation
was supported in any way by an AI tool, reviewers must explicitly disclose it in their report.
OAE will periodically reassess this policy to align with technological advancements and academic standards.

8. Conflict of Interests

OAE journals require authors to declare any possible financial and/or non-financial conflicts of interest at the end of
their manuscript and in the cover letter, as well as confirm this point when submitting their manuscript in the submission
system. If no conflicts of interest exist, authors need to state “All authors declared that there are no conflicts of interest”.
We also recognize that some authors may be bound by confidentiality agreements, in which cases authors need to state “All
authors declared that they are bound by confidentiality agreements that prevent them from disclosing their competing
interests in this work”.

9. Editorial Process
9.1 initial Check
9.1.1 Initial manuscript check
New submissions are initially checked by the Managing Editor from the perspectives of originality, suitability, structure
and formatting, conflicts of interest, background of authors, etc. Poorly prepared manuscripts may be rejected at this stage.
If your manuscript does not meet one or more of these requirements, we will return it for further revisions.

9.1.2 Publishing ethics
All manuscripts submitted to IR are screened using CrossCheck powered by iThenticate to identify any plagiarized content.
Your study must also meet all ethical requirements as outlined in our Editorial Policies. If the manuscript does not pass any
of these checks, we may return it to you for further revisions or decline to consider your study for publication.
9.2 Editorial Assessment
Once your manuscript has passed the initial check, it will be assigned to the Assistant Editor, and then the Academic
Editors who have no conflict of interest with the authors will be notified of the submission and invited to check. The
Academic Editors may reject manuscripts that they deem highly unlikely to pass peer review without further consultation.
Once your manuscript has passed the editorial assessment, the Assistant Editor will start to organize peer-review.

9.3 Process
IR operates a double-blind review process. The scientific quality of the research described in the manuscript is assessed
by a minimum of three independent expert reviewers. The Academic Editors are responsible for the final decision
regarding acceptance or rejection of the manuscript.

9.4 Decisions
Your research will be judged on scientific soundness only, not on its perceived impact as judged by Editors or referees.
There are three possible decisions: Accept (your study satisfies all publication criteria), Invitation to Revise (more work
is required to satisfy all criteria), and Reject (your study fails to satisfy key criteria and it is highly unlikely that further
work can address its shortcomings).
10. Contact Us

Journal Contact
Intelligence & Robotics Editorial Office
Suite 1504, Plaza A, Xi’an National Digital Publishing Base,
No. 996 Tiangu 7th Road, Gaoxin District, Xi’an 710077, Shaanxi, China.

Amber Ren
Managing Editor
editorial@intellrobot.com

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