Ai Policy

The International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility and Management recognizes the growing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies in academic research and scholarly publishing. The journal supports the responsible use of AI while maintaining standards of academic integrity, transparency, originality, and author accountability.

1. Responsible Use of AI

Authors may use AI-assisted tools for appropriate purposes such as language improvement, grammar correction, formatting, translation, brainstorming, and research assistance, provided that their use does not compromise the originality or integrity of the manuscript.

2. Author Responsibility

AI tools cannot be listed as authors or credited with authorship. Human authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and ethical compliance of the submitted manuscript, including any content generated or assisted by AI.

3. Disclosure of AI Use

Authors should disclose the use of AI or AI-assisted tools when such tools have made a substantive contribution to the manuscript, including content generation, analysis, interpretation, or other significant scholarly activities. The disclosure should identify the tool used and describe how it contributed to the work.

4. Accuracy and Verification

Authors must carefully verify all AI-generated or AI-assisted content. AI systems can produce inaccurate information, fabricated references, misleading statements, or inappropriate interpretations. Authors are responsible for checking facts, citations, data, quotations, and research findings before submission.

5. Originality and Plagiarism

The use of AI does not exempt authors from the journal's plagiarism and originality requirements. Manuscripts must represent genuine scholarly contributions, and authors must properly acknowledge sources and avoid presenting AI-generated material or another person's work as their own.

6. Confidentiality

Authors and reviewers should not enter confidential, unpublished, proprietary, or personally identifiable information into publicly accessible AI systems where doing so could compromise research confidentiality or participant privacy.

7. AI in Peer Review

Reviewers should not upload manuscripts or confidential peer-review materials to external AI tools for analysis unless such use is explicitly permitted by the journal and appropriate confidentiality protections are in place. Reviewers remain responsible for providing independent, objective, and confidential assessments.

8. Editorial Use of AI

Editors may use appropriate AI-assisted technologies for administrative or editorial purposes where necessary. Such use must not compromise confidentiality, fairness, editorial independence, or the integrity of the peer-review process.

9. Misuse of AI

The journal may investigate manuscripts where AI use is associated with fabricated data, fabricated references, plagiarism, manipulated content, misleading statements, undisclosed substantive AI assistance, or other forms of research or publication misconduct.