Conflicting of Interests Policy

A conflict of interest arises when authors, peer-reviewers, or publishers have interests that can influence any of the stages related to the publishing process raging from the biased writing of an article to accepting a submission based on their own personal interests.

According to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), these interests may be personal, commercial, political, academic or financial. The latter “interests may include employment, research funding, stock or share ownership, payment for lectures or travel, consultancies and company support for staff” (COPE 44*).

The journal urges authors to communicate conflicts of interest that arise in the writing and/or submission of a publication proposal. Likewise, peer-reviewers are required to declare any conflicts of interest that may influence their requested task. The journal reserves the right to deallocate the corresponding review based on this information. For their part, Connotas Editorial Board undertake to make decisions that favor the absence of conflicts of interest in all phases of the editorial process.

*Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) “Guidelines on Good Publication Practice” The COPE Report 1999, pp. 43-47 https://publicationethics.org/files/u7141/1999pdf13.pdf