- Focus and Scope
- Publication Ethics
- Authorship & Contributorship
- Plagiarism Policy
- Peer Review Process
- Research Misconduct
- Conflict of Interest
- Corrections, Retractions & Withdrawal
- Post-Publication Discussion
- Copyright Notice
- Licensing Policy
- Open Access Policy
- Archiving & Digital Preservation
- Artificial Intelligence Policy
- Author Fee
- Author Guidelines
- Abstracting and Indexing
- Journal History
Conflict of Interest
A conflict of interest exists when a financial, professional, institutional, or personal relationship could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, a person's judgment in the research, review, or editorial process. The existence of a conflict does not by itself mean misconduct; non-disclosure does.
- Authors
All authors must disclose any potential conflict of interest in a Conflict of Interest statement placed before the References. Examples include: research funding, employment, consultancy, equity, or patents related to the work; affiliation with a company whose product, device, or software is evaluated; and personal or professional relationships that could affect the research. Sources of funding, including grant numbers, must be stated in the Acknowledgment or Funding section.
If there is no conflict, authors should state: "The authors declare no conflict of interest."
- Reviewers
Reviewers must decline an invitation, or inform the Editor, if they have a conflict of interest with the manuscript, for example: a recent collaboration or co-authorship with any author (within the last three years), the same institution or department as any author, a competing research or commercial interest, or a personal relationship or dispute with any author. Reviewers must not use unpublished information from a manuscript for their own research.
- Editors
Editors must not handle manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest. Manuscripts submitted by the Editor-in-Chief, members of the Editorial Board, or staff of the Electrical Engineering Study Program, Universitas Negeri Surabaya, are assigned to an independent editor and reviewed by external reviewers, and the conflicted editor has no access to the review records or decision. Editorial decisions are based solely on scientific merit, relevance to the journal's scope, and compliance with publication ethics.
- Undisclosed Conflicts
If an undisclosed conflict of interest is identified after submission or publication, the journal will handle it according to the COPE flowcharts, which may result in a correction, an expression of concern, or retraction.
