--- title: "A Timely Revisit: JMIR's Guide to AI in Peer Review" description: "Navigating the Intersection of AI and Peer Review: A Guide for Ethical Integration" image: https://blog.jmir.org/hubfs/2025%20Peer%20Review%20Week%20blog%201%20v4.png --- [![JMIR Publications logo](https://blog.jmir.org/hs-fs/hubfs/JMIR-Publications_logo_2020_original.png?width=550&height=109&name=JMIR-Publications_logo_2020_original.png "JMIR Publications logo")](http://www.jmirpublications.com) Open main menu Close main menu [Peer Review](https://blog.jmir.org/tag/peer-review) [Artificial Intelligence](https://blog.jmir.org/tag/artificial-intelligence) # A Timely Revisit: JMIR's Guide to AI in Peer Review ![Jane Kelly, Integrated Marketing Manager](https://blog.jmir.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202026-07-20%20at%205.08.33%20PM.png?width=45&name=Screenshot%202026-07-20%20at%205.08.33%20PM.png) [Jane Kelly, Integrated Marketing Manager](https://blog.jmir.org/author/jane-kelly) Published Date: 8 September 2025 5:24 p.m. [Share this blog post on Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=I+found+this+interesting+blog+post&url=https://blog.jmir.org/a-timely-revisit-jmirs-guide-to-ai-in-peer-review) [Share this blog post on Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://blog.jmir.org/a-timely-revisit-jmirs-guide-to-ai-in-peer-review) [Share this blog post on LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://blog.jmir.org/a-timely-revisit-jmirs-guide-to-ai-in-peer-review) ![A Timely Revisit: JMIR's Guide to AI in Peer Review](https://blog.jmir.org/hubfs/2025%20Peer%20Review%20Week%20blog%201%20v4.png) This Peer Review Week, we're doing something a little different. As the global theme, “Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era,” takes center stage, we’ve decided to bring back a piece of content that is more relevant now than ever. Last year, we published an insightful guide on the ethical integration of AI into the peer review process. This guide was born from the recognition that AI was not a future possibility, but a present reality. Today, as the conversation has shifted from "if" to "how" AI should be used, our guidance remains a crucial resource. Below is our 2024 blog post, "Navigating the Intersection of AI and Peer Review: A Guide for Ethical Integration," reproduced in full. We invite you to read it again—or for the first time—and join us in the ongoing dialogue about how to harness the power of AI while upholding the integrity and human spirit of scholarly evaluation. --- The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the peer review process is a rapidly evolving landscape, offering the promise of streamlined efficiency and increased objectivity. However, this exciting development also highlights several ethical considerations that reviewers should thoughtfully address and navigate. Most importantly, if a reviewer is considering using generative AI to help them with performing a peer review, first check journal policy on whether this is permissible and, if so, then how. AI's Potential in Peer Review In general, some of the potential applications of AI in peer review are: - **Increased efficiency**: AI can automate tasks such as plagiarism detection, language correction or translation, and manuscript formatting checks. These would allow for the “human touch” from everyone involved – authors, peer reviewers, editors – to focus on more complex considerations and tasks to support a manuscript’s review towards potential acceptance and publication. - **Increased objectivity**: AI can potentially assist with certain administrative tasks, such as identifying potential conflicts of interest, related review integrity concerns, and the potential impact of bias on communicating review content. - **Enhanced feedback**: AI tools can potentially provide authors with initial detailed and constructive feedback, aiding in their manuscript's improvement before it is evaluated by human reviewers. Authors should always check journal policies relating to the potential use of generative AI in developing a manuscript.  [![AI and Peer Review - Take Home Points - Edited](https://blog.jmir.org/hs-fs/hubfs/AI%20and%20Peer%20Review%20-%20Take%20Home%20Points%20-%20Edited.png?width=231&height=144&name=AI%20and%20Peer%20Review%20-%20Take%20Home%20Points%20-%20Edited.png)](https://share.hsforms.com/1hp1J-Ir5QF2NKVKWLAqU0gbpk19) [![Download the AI and Peer Review Infographic](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/19668141/e3c26c88-b6a3-47a7-8f0b-fd3c3107d61f.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/19668141/e3c26c88-b6a3-47a7-8f0b-fd3c3107d61f) Ethical Considerations - **Adherence to journal policies**: It's imperative that reviewers familiarize themselves with and strictly adhere to the journal's specific policies concerning the use of AI tools in the review process, especially given the widespread availability of generative AI. - **Bias mitigation**: AI algorithms, while powerful, can inherit biases present in the data they're trained on. Reviewers must remain vigilant in identifying and mitigating such biases to ensure fair evaluations; accountability of content will always lie with the reviewer in this situation. - **Transparency and disclosure**: AI-generated feedback should ideally be transparently disclosed to a level of detail that is required by a journal policy, if it is allowable in the first place. Summary The integration of AI into peer review holds great promise, but it's essential that everyone involved in scientific publishing – from authors to reviewers to editors and publishers – navigate this new landscape responsibly. AI should complement or augment, not replace, human expertise. All involved have individual responsibility for adhering to journal policies, mitigating potential biases, maintaining accountability, and prioritizing transparency and disclosure.  Remember: The future of peer review is a collaborative effort. Explore this [editorial](https://www.jmir.org/2023/1/e51584) for insights on JMIR Publications' policy and perspective on current challenges.   # Subscribe to Our Blog Updates!   ![Jane Kelly, Integrated Marketing Manager](https://blog.jmir.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202026-07-20%20at%205.08.33%20PM.png?width=150&name=Screenshot%202026-07-20%20at%205.08.33%20PM.png) #### Jane Kelly, Integrated Marketing Manager Jane Kelly is the Integrated Marketing Manager at JMIR Publications. Bringing a career's worth of experience in the publishing industry, she uses strategic storytelling to connect diverse research communities with global audiences and make high-impact clinical discoveries accessible to all. ### Leave a Comment ## Related Articles [![](https://blog.jmir.org/hubfs/00%20Marketing/Peer%20Review%20Week/PRW%202026%20Freya.png)](https://blog.jmir.org/early-lessons-from-jmirs-karma-reviewer-rewards-program) [Peer Review](https://blog.jmir.org/tag/peer-review) ### [Early Lessons from JMIR's Karma Reviewer Rewards Program](https://blog.jmir.org/early-lessons-from-jmirs-karma-reviewer-rewards-program) Why does anyone agree to review a manuscript at all? 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