Publishing Policies

There are three separate licensing positions:

Every article published in JIRMI is made available to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). There is no embargo. The article is open from the day it is published.

Anyone may copy, redistribute, translate, adapt and build upon a JIRMI article, in any medium or format, for any purpose including commercial purposes, on one condition: appropriate credit. Credit must name the author(s), the article title, the journal, the volume, issue and year, and the DOI, and must state whether changes were made. Credit must not be given in a way that suggests the author or JIRMI endorses the user or their use.

Preferred citation form:

[Author(s)]. "[Article Title]." Journal of International Research & Multidisciplinary Innovation (JIRMI), Vol. [X], Issue [Y] ([Year]). DOI: [doi]. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

JIRMI does not require permission, registration or notification for any use permitted by CC BY 4.0. No fee is payable for such use.

The CC BY 4.0 licence covers the original content of the article. It does not extend to third-party material reproduced within an article — figures, photographs, tables, datasets, instruments, code or extended quotations owned by someone else. Such material remains subject to its own terms and is identified in the article where it appears. Anyone wishing to reuse it must go to the rights holder.

Where an article or part of an article is subject to terms other than CC BY 4.0, this is stated on the article itself.

Authors keep their copyright. JIRMI does not take ownership of any article it publishes and never asks for a transfer or assignment of copyright.

On acceptance of a manuscript, the author(s) grant JIRMI a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable licence to:

Everything else. In particular, and without needing JIRMI's permission:

• The author may deposit and share the submitted, accepted and published versions anywhere and at any time — personal site, institutional repository, SSRN, arXiv, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, a preprint server, social media — with no embargo.
• The author may reuse the article, in whole or in part, in a thesis, a book, a chapter, teaching material or later work.
• The author may translate the article, commercially or otherwise, and may authorise others to do so.
• The author may reuse their own figures, tables and data anywhere.
• The author may republish the article elsewhere. JIRMI's consent is not required and is never asked for. We ask only that the first publication in JIRMI be acknowledged with the DOI.
• The author may bring infringement proceedings in their own name.

Moral rights, including the right to be identified as author, are unaffected to the extent the applicable law provides.

Bibliographic metadata for JIRMI articles — titles, author names, affiliations, abstracts, keywords, references, DOIs, dates — is released under CC0 1.0 and may be harvested, stored, reused and redistributed freely by anyone, including commercially, without attribution.

CC BY 4.0 permits text and data mining, indexing, crawling, and use of articles in machine learning and AI training datasets, commercially or otherwise, subject only to attribution. JIRMI does not impose any additional restriction, does not require a separate licence for these uses, and does not charge for them.

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"JIRMI" and the JIRMI name and logo are not licensed for reuse. They may not be used in a way that suggests affiliation with, sponsorship by, or endorsement from the journal. Nothing in CC BY 4.0 grants any trade mark rights.

The JIRMI manuscript template may be downloaded, used and adapted freely for the purpose of preparing a manuscript, for JIRMI or for any other journal.

The CC BY 4.0 licence granted on publication is irrevocable and survives any correction, expression of concern or retraction. A retracted article stays online, clearly marked as retracted, with the retraction notice linked to it and the Crossref record updated. Neither JIRMI nor an author can withdraw an article from public circulation once published, and neither can impose new restrictions on copies already distributed.

For anything outside CC BY 4.0 — reuse of the website, the logo, or third-party material in an article — write to editor@jirmi.in with "Permissions" in the subject line. We respond within three working days.

These terms take effect on 01 January 2026 and apply to all articles published from Vol. 1, Issue 1 onwards. They may be revised; the version in force at the date of acceptance governs the article. Earlier versions remain available on request. Licences already granted are not affected by a revision.

These terms are governed by the laws of India. The courts at Mumbai have jurisdiction, without prejudice to an author's right to bring proceedings in their own jurisdiction where the law permits.

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By using this website you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the site. If you submit a manuscript, the Author Guidelines, the Licensing Terms, the Publication Ethics Policy and the Article Processing Fee page also apply to you, and where they conflict with these terms on a publishing matter, they prevail.

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You must not:

• copy or republish the website's own content beyond what these terms or the law allow;
• scrape, crawl or make automated requests at a rate that burdens the site (article text and metadata may be mined freely — see the Licensing Terms — but not by degrading the service for others);
• attempt to access any part of the site, server or database you are not authorised to access;
• upload anything containing malware, or anything unlawful, defamatory, obscene or infringing;
• impersonate another person, or submit a manuscript in someone else's name or with a fabricated identity or affiliation;
• use the site or the JIRMI name in a way suggesting affiliation with, or endorsement by, the journal.

Submission does not create any obligation on us to publish. Editorial decisions are ours and are made in accordance with the Review Process and the Publication Ethics Policy. The Article Processing Fee is payable only on acceptance, on the terms set out on the Article Processing Fee page, and refunds are governed by the Cancellation & Refund Policy.

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We may restrict or block access to the site, or decline to consider submissions from a person, where we reasonably believe these terms have been breached or where the Publication Ethics Policy provides for sanctions.

We may amend these terms. The current version is always on this page with its version number and date. Continued use of the site after a change means you accept it.

Indian law governs these terms. The courts at Mumbai have jurisdiction.

Everything published in JIRMI represents the views of the author or authors of that article. It does not represent the views of JIRMI, its editors, its editorial board members, its reviewers, or the institutions any of them are associated with. Publication does not signify endorsement of the argument, the findings or the conclusions.

Nothing published by JIRMI is legal, medical, clinical, financial, engineering or other professional advice, and none of it should be relied on as a substitute for advice from a qualified professional who knows your circumstances. This matters particularly for our medical, health and legal content: no article on this site should be used to diagnose or treat a person, to decide a course of clinical care, or to decide a legal position. Law and clinical practice change; an article is accurate, at best, as at the date it was written.

Double-blind peer review is a check on quality, not a guarantee of it. Reviewers work from the manuscript as submitted. They do not repeat experiments, re-run statistics, audit datasets, verify every citation, or independently confirm ethics approvals. Peer review reduces the risk of error; it does not eliminate it. Responsibility for the accuracy, originality and integrity of an article rests with its authors.

We make reasonable efforts to keep the site accurate and up to date, but give no warranty that it is. Content may contain errors and may be corrected, retracted or removed.

Links to other sites, and third-party material reproduced in articles, are outside our control. We are not responsible for their content, accuracy or availability.

Authors must disclose the use of AI tools in the preparation of their manuscript. Disclosure is a transparency measure; it is not verification by us of any AI-assisted content, and the author remains fully accountable for everything submitted and published.

The Article Processing Fee is a charge for processing an accepted manuscript. It does not purchase acceptance. Acceptance and payment do not guarantee that an article will be indexed by, or retained in, any particular database, or that it will attract citations or any metric. Indexing decisions belong to the indexing bodies alone.

To the extent the law permits, JIRMI, its editors, its editorial board and its reviewers accept no liability for any loss or damage arising from use of, or reliance on, anything published on this site. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

JIRMI is published by JIRMI, a sole proprietorship having its office at 103, Surya CHS, Natwar Nagar Road No. 1, Jogeshwari East, Mumbai — 400060. The publisher funds the journal through the Article Processing Fee and takes no part in decisions on individual manuscripts. The Editor-in-Chief has final authority over what is published. No advertiser, sponsor, institution, funder or publisher representative influences acceptance, rejection or the content of an article. JIRMI accepts no advertising — see the Advertising Policy.

Authorship requires all four of the following (ICMJE criteria):

1. a substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work, or to acquiring, analysing or interpreting the data;
2. drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
3. approval of the version submitted and of the final published version; and
4. agreement to be accountable for the work, including for the accuracy and integrity of the parts the person did not personally carry out.

Anyone meeting all four must be listed. Anyone not meeting all four must not be listed, and should be credited in the Acknowledgements instead. Funding, supervision, providing facilities, providing data, or general departmental oversight do not, on their own, make a person an author.

Not permitted: guest authorship (adding someone who did not contribute), gift or honorary authorship, and ghost authorship (omitting someone who did contribute). These are treated as misconduct.

AI tools cannot be authors. They cannot take responsibility for the work. Their use must be disclosed in accordance with the AI Use Policy.

Corresponding author. The corresponding author handles all communication with JIRMI, confirms that every co-author has approved the submission, and grants the publishing licence on behalf of all authors. JIRMI separately emails each listed co-author for confirmation at submission.

Changes to authorship after submission — adding, removing or reordering authors — require a written request signed by all authors, including the one being added or removed, with reasons. The Editor-in-Chief decides. Authorship is not changed after publication except by way of a published correction.

Author limit. JIRMI currently accepts up to three authors per manuscript. This is an operational limit, not an ethical position; where the nature of the research genuinely requires more, write to the editor before submitting.

Authors must disclose, at submission, any financial or non-financial interest that a reasonable reader might think could have influenced the work: funding and grants, employment and consultancies, honoraria, patents and patent applications, shareholdings, paid expert testimony, membership of an advocacy group, a professional relationship with the subject of the research, and any personal relationship that bears on it. If there is nothing to declare, say so. The disclosure is published with the article.

Reviewers must decline an invitation, or disclose and let the editor decide, where they have worked with an author recently, are at the same institution, have a competing interest in the subject, or stand to benefit from the outcome.

Editors must recuse themselves from any manuscript in which they have an interest.

Submissions by editors and board members. Editorial board members and the Editor-in-Chief may submit to JIRMI. Such a manuscript is handled entirely by another editor, the submitting person has no access to the file, the reviewer identities or the decision, and the fact that the paper was handled independently is stated in the published article.

Human participants. Research involving human participants, their tissue or their identifiable data must have been approved by an institutional ethics committee or equivalent body. Give the committee's name and the approval reference in the manuscript. Say that informed consent was obtained. Where there was no such committee, explain why and confirm the research followed the Declaration of Helsinki.

Patient identity. Case reports, clinical images, scans and any material from which a patient could be identified require written informed consent from the patient or their legal representative. JIRMI may ask to see the consent form. Anonymising an image by masking the eyes is not sufficient.

Animals. Research involving animals must state the approving body and the guidelines followed (CPCSEA, ARRIVE or equivalent).

Clinical trials must be registered prospectively — CTRI or another WHO primary registry — and the registration number must be given.

Field and social research involving vulnerable groups must state how consent was obtained and how participants were protected.

The Editor-in-Chief may refuse or retract any manuscript where the ethical basis of the research cannot be established.

Authors must keep their raw data and be able to produce it if an editor or reviewer asks during review or within a reasonable period afterwards. Authors are encouraged to include a data availability statement saying where the data can be found or why it cannot be shared. Manipulating images or data to misrepresent a finding is misconduct.

A manuscript must not be under consideration anywhere else at the same time. It must not have been published elsewhere. Preprints, conference papers, working papers and unpublished thesis chapters do not bar submission, provided they are disclosed in the submission notes. Splitting one piece of research into several articles to increase output ("salami slicing") is misconduct. Plagiarism and self-plagiarism are dealt with in the Anti-Plagiarism Policy.

Anyone may raise a concern. Write to editor@jirmi.in with "Publication Concern — [Manuscript ID or DOI]" in the subject line. Anonymous reports are considered but are harder to act on.

We follow the COPE flowcharts. In outline:

Sanctions, depending on severity: rejection; withdrawal of acceptance; correction; retraction; notification of the author's institution, employer, or professional or regulatory body; and a bar on future submissions for a stated period.

An editor who is the subject of a complaint takes no part in handling it. Appeals are governed by the Complaints & Appeals Policy.

Correction (corrigendum or erratum). Issued where a genuine error does not affect the validity of the findings. The article stands; a correction notice is published, linked from the article, and the Crossref record updated.

Expression of concern. Issued where there is credible reason to doubt an article but the investigation is unresolved or inconclusive. The article stays accessible with the notice attached.

Retraction. Issued where the findings are unreliable through error or fabrication, where plagiarism or duplicate publication is established, where the research lacked required ethical approval, where the authors did not have the right to publish, or where there was undisclosed competing interest serious enough to undermine the work.

Retraction is not a punishment and is not used to settle authorship disputes or disagreements of interpretation.

Removal of an article happens only where leaving it online would be unlawful, would violate a court order, or would create a serious risk to health or to an identifiable person's privacy. The citation and metadata remain, with a note explaining the removal.

Where JIRMI publishes a special issue, the guest editor is named, and their own submissions to that issue are handled independently by the Editor-in-Chief and make up no more than 25% of the issue. Special-issue articles go through the same review process and the same standards as any other article.

A submitted manuscript is a confidential document. It must not be shown to, or discussed with, anyone outside the editorial process; must not be used for the reviewer's own advantage; and must not be pasted into AI tools that retain or train on input. Reviewer obligations are set out in full in the Review Policy and the AI Use Policy.

Readers may raise substantive criticism of a published article by writing to editor@jirmi.in. Where the criticism has merit, we will put it to the authors and, where appropriate, publish a comment, a response, or a correction.

Reviewed annually, or sooner where COPE guidance changes. The version in force at the date of acceptance governs a manuscript.