AI Policy

The International Journal of Data-Driven Management and Business Strategy  recognizes the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in research, data analysis, academic writing, and scholarly communication. The journal permits responsible use of AI-assisted tools while maintaining research integrity, transparency, originality, and author accountability.

1. Responsible Use of AI

Authors may use AI tools for appropriate research-support activities, including:

  • Language and grammar improvement
  • Improving clarity and readability
  • Literature organization
  • Data analysis and coding assistance
  • Statistical or computational support
  • Formatting and editing assistance

2. Author Responsibility

AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Human authors remain fully responsible for the submitted manuscript, including its accuracy, originality, methodology, conclusions, references, and ethical compliance.

Authors should independently verify AI-generated information because AI systems can produce inaccurate, incomplete, biased, or fabricated content.

3. Disclosure of AI Use

Authors should disclose substantial use of AI tools in manuscript preparation. The disclosure should identify the AI tool used and explain how it contributed to the research or manuscript.

Routine spelling, grammar, or formatting assistance generally does not require extensive disclosure.

4. Research Data and Results

AI must not be used to fabricate, falsify, manipulate, or misrepresent:

  • Research data
  • Statistical results
  • Tables or figures
  • References
  • Research findings
  • Experimental or analytical outcomes

For a data-driven management journal, authors must ensure that AI-assisted analysis is appropriately validated and reproducible.

5. Confidentiality and Privacy

Authors, reviewers, and editors should not upload confidential manuscripts, unpublished research, proprietary business information, personal data, or other sensitive material into AI systems unless appropriate confidentiality and data-protection safeguards are assured.

6. AI-Generated References

Authors are responsible for verifying every AI-generated citation and reference. Fabricated, nonexistent, or inaccurate references must not be included in a manuscript.

7. Peer Review and AI

Reviewers should not use generative AI to evaluate or summarize confidential manuscripts unless such use is expressly permitted and appropriate confidentiality can be maintained. Reviewers remain responsible for the content and recommendations contained in their review reports.

8. Editorial Use of AI

The journal may use appropriate AI-assisted technologies for administrative or editorial support. However, final editorial decisions remain the responsibility of qualified human editors.

9. Ethical Compliance

AI-assisted research and writing must comply with the journal's requirements concerning publication ethics, research ethics, plagiarism, data availability, authorship, copyright, privacy, and conflicts of interest.

10. Misuse of AI

If substantial AI-related misconduct is identified—including fabricated content, manipulated data, undisclosed inappropriate use, plagiarism, or other violations—the journal may request clarification and take appropriate editorial action, including revision, rejection, correction, or retraction where warranted.