Originality of Work

Originality of Work and Restrictions on AI-Generated Content

Pharmacomoles is dedicated to upholding the highest standards of academic honesty, scientific integrity, and publication ethics. To maintain these standards, all submitted manuscripts must comply with the following requirements:

Originality of Work

  • Manuscripts must represent the authors’ own original research and must not have been published previously, either in whole or in part, in any language.

  • Manuscripts that are under review or consideration elsewhere will not be accepted.

  • All data, findings, and interpretations should be authentic and derived directly from the authors’ research activities.

  • Any material — including text, figures, data, or concepts — borrowed from other sources must be properly cited following the Vancouver referencing style.

  • All submissions are screened using recognized plagiarism detection software. Manuscripts found to contain plagiarism, falsified data, or substantial overlap with prior work will be rejected or withdrawn in accordance with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Restrictions on AI-Generated Content

  • The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools — such as ChatGPT, Bard/Gemini, Claude, Copilot, or similar — to produce, rephrase, summarize, or otherwise create the substantive intellectual content of manuscripts is strictly prohibited.

  • AI-generated text, tables, figures, images, or references must not be included in any submitted manuscript.

  • Minor language editing or grammar correction using AI tools may be permitted only if fully disclosed within the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript.

  • Authors retain full responsibility for the accuracy, authenticity, and originality of all content submitted.

  • Failure to disclose AI assistance constitutes a breach of publication ethics and may lead to manuscript rejection, retraction, and notification of the authors’ affiliated institutions.

Pharmacomoles fully supports the ethical principles endorsed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and expects all contributing authors to uphold these professional and ethical standards.