Conflict of interest policy

Conflict of interest policy

A conflict of interest arises when any of the parties involved in the process have interests that can affect any stage of the publication: from the biased writing of a manuscript to the acceptance of the article based on their own interests.

According to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)*, these interests can be personal, commercial, political, academic or economic. The latter, in turn, "can include employment, research funds, share ownership, payment for conferences or trips, consulting and business support."

ETYP encourages authors to communicate conflicts of interest that arise in the writing and/or submission of their publication proposal. Likewise, the reviewers are obliged to declare any conflict of interest in the task that is requested of them. The journal reserves the right to disassign the corresponding review based on this latest information. In addition, the ETYP Editorial Committee is committed to making 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, p. 43-47, https://publicationethics.org/files/u7141/1999pdf13.pdf.