Conflicts of interest policy

A conflict of interest arises when authors, reviewers or editors have interests that may influence any of the stages involved in the publication process: from biased writing of an article, undeclared funding of scientific trials, among other things.

According to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), these interests may be personal, commercial, political, academic or economic. EVSOS encourages authors to disclose conflicts of interest that arise in the writing and/or submission of a publication proposal. 

Likewise, reviewers are obliged to declare any conflict of interest that may influence the task they are asked to perform (See more in Peer Review Process). For its part, the EVSOS Editorial Board is committed to making decisions that favour the absence of conflicts of interest at all stages of the editorial process.