Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy

The Journal of Innovative Research in Management Sciences (JIRMS) recognizes the growing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in scholarly communication. While AI-assisted tools may support limited editorial or language-related tasks, they must never replace human intellectual contribution, scholarly judgment, critical thinking, or academic responsibility.

JIRMS is committed to promoting original human scholarship in accordance with the values of academic integrity, research ethics, and responsible innovation. The Journal encourages authors to develop and communicate their own ideas, analyses, reasoning, and conclusions through independent scholarly work.

Policy Statement

Every manuscript submitted to JIRMS must represent the authors' own original intellectual contribution. The conception of the research, research design, critical analysis, interpretation of findings, scholarly arguments, conclusions, and academic writing must originate from the human authors.

Artificial Intelligence tools must not replace human creativity, reasoning, scientific judgment, or intellectual responsibility.

Prohibited Uses

JIRMS does not permit the submission of manuscripts containing:

  • AI-generated scholarly content presented as original human work;
  • fabricated, falsified, or manipulated research data generated using AI;
  • AI-generated or manipulated images, figures, graphs, or other visual materials that misrepresent research findings;
  • fabricated references, citations, or sources;
  • AI-generated peer-review reports, reviewer identities, or editorial correspondence; or
  • any use of AI intended to deceive the editorial or peer-review process.

Any such practices may constitute research misconduct and will be handled in accordance with the Journal's Publication Ethics and Research Integrity Policy.

Human Intellectual Responsibility

JIRMS believes that meaningful scholarship depends upon independent human inquiry, critical thinking, analytical reasoning, creativity, and ethical responsibility. The Journal encourages researchers, academics, and students to develop their own scholarly voice, intellectual independence, and disciplinary expertise. Original writing strengthens critical thinking, reasoning, problem-solving, and the ability to communicate complex ideas with clarity and integrity—qualities that cannot be delegated to automated systems.

AI should serve only as a supplementary tool and must never replace the knowledge, insight, judgment, or originality expected of scholarly authors.

Editorial Assessment

JIRMS may use AI-assisted technologies, together with human editorial assessment, to support research integrity checks, including the identification of potential AI-generated content, manipulated images, fabricated references, plagiarism, or other indicators of publication misconduct. Editorial decisions are made exclusively by qualified editors and are never based solely on automated systems.

 

Compliance

This policy is consistent with the principles of responsible AI use in scholarly publishing and aligns with the recommendations of the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), and internationally recognized best practices for research integrity.