Conflict of Interest

A conflict of interest exists when a financial, professional, or personal relationship could influence, or appear to influence, how a person writes, reviews, or decides on a manuscript. IJES : Indonesian Journal of Environmental Sustainability requires every author, reviewer, and editor to declare such interests.

Examples

Financial

Funding, employment, consultancy, shares, patents, or fees related to the subject of the work.

Professional

Close collaboration, competition, or shared institution with the authors; involvement in a project assessed in the manuscript.

Personal

Family ties, friendship, or personal disagreement with the authors.

Authors

Authors declare all relevant interests and all sources of funding in the Conflict of Interest and Funding statements of the manuscript. If there are none, the statement reads: "The authors declare no conflict of interest." The role of funders in study design, data collection, analysis, and the decision to publish must be stated.

Reviewers

Reviewers decline the invitation if they have a conflict of interest, or inform the editor when they become aware of one during the review. Reviewers do not use unpublished information from the manuscript for their own work.

Editors

  • Editors do not handle manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest; such manuscripts are assigned to another editor.
  • Manuscripts submitted by members of the editorial team, including the Editor in Chief, are handled by another editor. The author-editor has no access to the review process or the identity of the reviewers and takes no part in the decision.
  • Editorial decisions are not influenced by the publisher, sponsors, or any commercial interest.

Undeclared conflicts

Conflicts found after submission or publication are handled under the Research Misconduct policy and, after publication, may lead to a correction.

Related: Publication Ethics · Peer Review Process