Let’s explore what impact AI has created for the transformation of scientific publishing, particularly for journals related to pharmacy and health science and what will be the role of editors in maintaining quality and integrity. There is No doubt that if we will use AI supported tools for screening of manuscripts, refining language, grammar correction along with detection of plagiarism, the whole editorial process will be smooth but these will be responsible for the introduction of new challenges that are related to maintaining the integrity of research work and some ethical concerns. Thatswhy the role of journal editors is essential for maintaining quality and upholding the ethical standards.

Before publishing, they have to make sure that manuscripts are relevant according to the aim and scope of the journal guidelines, well suited according to the category and publishing specifications of that journal. They have to follow the tagline ‘Stay Away from AI generated and refined Contents’. Let’s us explore one byone. The first and important responsibility is to make sure that published research work will be the best out of the rest, they can screen the article using AI at first but their own knowledge can help to understand the scientific relevance than a AI. Because AI will judge by grammatical correctness and clarity of language, but they can not work like human in accessing the novelty and more detailed study. AI powered tools like iThenticate and Turnitin can help for plagiarism detection but editors should not rely upon this. If we look into ethical standards for integrity of research, it directly impacts on human health. The increasing use of AI in research can cause data privacy issues in AI driven studies on patients, may bring false findings sometimes. Various AI assisted tools like ChatGPT pose significant challenges because some authors can submit the whole manuscript just by generating from this, which further reduces author’s contribution and indirectly harms into ethics of research. Many reviewers are putting the manuscripts into AI assisted tools and are getting review suggestions, they are simply copying these and are putting in reviewer’s comment section. Editors should have one step ahead in this case from reviewers for journal quality and integrity. If the editors are getting AI assisted literature review works, they have to thoroughly look that AI is used and it has not caused any data inaccuracy, which is a crucial factor. Editors have also to be checked reference management section in a manuscript, because authors are using AI for citation management, which causes biases by falsely citing to articles which are irrelevant. After post publication, editors have to check that manuscripts are not causing any issues, if he notices, he can remove the article or published manuscript. In the technology of AI, editors are the guardian and protector of journal’s scientific integrity, quality and standards. AI makes process easier for plagiarism check and screening etc. But in addition to this it also brings false or irrelevant informations sometimes along with the ethical challenges. By modifying editorial policies, successfully detecting the AI generated contents and preventing from misinformation, editor can maintain the integrity of research, while main moto is development of science and scientifical research without compromising on ethical values.