Conflict of Interest

Editorial team members and reviewers will recuse themselves in the event of a conflict of interest regarding an author or authors, or the content of a manuscript under review. All conflicts of interest between authors, reviewers, and members of the editorial team and the scientific committee will be avoided.

Editors and reviewers must recuse themselves from making decisions when:

1. There is a direct relationship between an author and a reviewer.

2. There is a recent and significant professional collaboration between reviewers and authors.

3. An editor or reviewer is a contributor to the submitted project.

4. The editor or reviewer believes they cannot be objective, either for personal reasons or due to a financial interest not otherwise covered by this policy.

Authors' Conflicts of Interest

The most obvious conflicts of interest are financial relationships, such as direct employment, paid consulting, company ownership, fees, patent authorship, or conference fees. However, conflicts can also arise from friendships, intellectual rivalries, academic competition, or beliefs.

When submitting an article for publication, all authors must declare any financial or personal relationships with public or private entities that could intentionally influence the results of their work. They must also declare any non-financial relationships that could cause conflicts of interest in their manuscript (personal, academic, ideological, intellectual, political, or religious).