Jurnal Inovasi Manajemen Bisnis (JIMB) recognizes that artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies may support certain aspects of research, writing, editing, data analysis, and scholarly communication. However, the use of such tools must be transparent, responsible, ethical, and subject to full human oversight.

AI tools may be used to support scholarly work, but they must not replace human academic judgment, critical analysis, ethical responsibility, or intellectual accountability. Authors remain responsible for every element of a manuscript submitted to JIMB.

• AI-assisted output must be reviewed and verified by the authors.
• Authors remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and legality of submitted content.
• AI use must not misrepresent the authors' actual scholarly contribution.
• AI tools must not be used to circumvent publication ethics, peer review, or originality requirements.
• Relevant use of AI should be disclosed where it has materially contributed to the manuscript.

Human Authorship Is Required

AI systems, generative AI tools, chatbots, language models, and other automated technologies cannot be listed as authors or co-authors. Authorship requires accountability, approval of the final manuscript, responsibility for research integrity, and the ability to respond to ethical and scholarly questions, which must remain with human authors.

When AI or AI-assisted technologies have made a substantial contribution to manuscript preparation, analysis, interpretation, or presentation, authors should disclose their use transparently.

The disclosure should identify, where relevant, the tool used, the purpose for which it was used, and the extent of its contribution. Routine spelling or basic grammar correction does not normally require detailed disclosure.

“The authors used [name of AI tool] for [specific purpose]. All AI-assisted output was reviewed and verified by the authors, who remain fully responsible for the final content of the manuscript.”

AI-generated or AI-assisted content may contain inaccuracies, biases, fabricated information, incomplete interpretations, or non-existent references. Authors must independently verify all such content before submission.

• References and DOIs must be checked against reliable original sources.
• Statistical values, calculations, and analytical outputs must be verified.
• Quotations must be checked against the original publication.
• Factual statements must be supported by appropriate evidence.
• AI-generated interpretations must be critically evaluated by the authors.

AI tools must not be used to:

• Fabricate, falsify, or manipulate research data;
• Create fictitious references, DOIs, quotations, or sources;
• Generate false research participants, interviews, observations, or survey responses;
• Conceal plagiarism or inappropriate text recycling;
• Misrepresent AI-generated material as independently produced scholarly findings;
• Produce misleading images, figures, tables, or data visualizations;
• Circumvent ethical review, research integrity requirements, or editorial policies.

AI-generated citation information must never be accepted without verification. Authors are responsible for confirming that every cited source actually exists, accurately supports the associated claim, and contains correct bibliographic information.

AI-generated or AI-modified images, figures, illustrations, and visual materials must not misrepresent research findings or create misleading evidence. Where AI has materially contributed to the creation or modification of a scholarly visual, its use should be disclosed where appropriate. Authors remain responsible for ensuring accuracy, originality, copyright compliance, and research integrity.

Protect Confidential and Sensitive Information

Authors must not upload confidential, sensitive, personally identifiable, proprietary, unpublished, or legally protected research data to external AI platforms unless they are authorized to do so and appropriate privacy and data protection requirements have been satisfied.

Peer reviewers must protect the confidentiality of unpublished manuscripts. Reviewers should not upload manuscripts, manuscript sections, unpublished data, figures, or confidential review materials to external generative AI systems where confidentiality or data security cannot be assured.

The intellectual evaluation, criticism, recommendation, and final review report must remain the responsibility of the reviewer. AI tools must not replace independent scholarly judgment.

Editors must maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and editorial communications. Confidential manuscript content should not be uploaded to external AI systems where privacy, confidentiality, or data handling cannot be adequately protected.

AI-assisted tools may support administrative or technical editorial tasks, but manuscript evaluation, reviewer selection, ethical assessment, and final editorial decisions must remain under human editorial responsibility.

Artificial intelligence does not make final publication decisions for JIMB. Decisions regarding acceptance, revision, rejection, correction, or retraction remain the responsibility of human editors, taking into account peer-review reports, academic quality, journal policies, ethical considerations, and the integrity of the scholarly record.

If the Editorial Team identifies potentially inappropriate, misleading, unethical, or undisclosed use of AI, the journal may request clarification, disclosure, correction, or revision from the authors.

Serious violations involving fabricated data, fictitious references, manipulated content, plagiarism, confidentiality breaches, or other research misconduct may result in rejection or post-publication action in accordance with JIMB's Publication Ethics and Retraction, Correction and Withdrawal Policy.

The use of AI tools does not reduce or transfer the scholarly responsibility of authors, reviewers, or editors. Human judgment, verification, transparency, and accountability remain essential throughout the research and publication process.

Innovation with Integrity and Human Accountability

Jurnal Inovasi Manajemen Bisnis supports the responsible use of artificial intelligence where it contributes to scholarly work without compromising originality, accuracy, confidentiality, research ethics, transparency, intellectual responsibility, or the integrity of the academic publication process.

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