Conflict of Interest

A conflict of interest exists when a financial, personal, academic, or institutional relationship could influence, or appear to influence, a person’s judgment about a manuscript.

Authors

• Disclose all relevant interests in a Conflict of Interest statement in the manuscript, for example, funding, employment, consultancy, or a commercial interest in a product studied (such as learning media, software, or teaching kits developed by the authors).
• If there is no conflict, state: “The authors declare no conflict of interest.” List all sources of funding.
• Inform the editor if a new conflict arises during review or after publication.

Reviewers

• Decline the invitation or inform the editor if you have a recent collaboration, a supervisor–student relationship, a close personal relationship, or a competing interest with the authors, or if you can identify the authors and cannot review objectively.
• Do not use unpublished information from a manuscript for your own work.

Editors

• Editors must not handle a manuscript in which they have a conflict of interest. The manuscript is reassigned to another editor without a conflict.
• Editorial decisions are based only on the quality of the work and its fit with the journal’s scope.

Manuscripts by editors and reviewers of UJCEd

Members of the editorial team and reviewers may submit manuscripts to UJCEd. They receive no special treatment. The author is excluded from all handling of their own manuscript and has no access to its review records or reviewer identities. Another editor handles the manuscript, and it goes through the same peer review process as other submissions. Undisclosed conflicts found later are handled under the Allegations of Research Misconduct policy.