Informatics. Economics. Management

A potential conflict of interest, according to the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), occurs when there are financial, personal or professional conditions that could affect the scientific judgment of a reviewer or editor and, as a result, the decision of the editorial board regarding the publication of an article.

The journal «Informatics. Economics. Management» proceeds from the fact that by the very fact of submitting the article the author declares that:

• the text of the article indicates all sources of research funding;
• there are no commercial, financial, personal or professional factors that could create a conflict of interest in relation to the submitted article.

In case of of a conflict of interest, the author may ask the Editor-in-Chief to exclude any particular reviewer from consideration of the article sent by him.

Editors and reviewers should declare a potential conflict of interest that may affect the decision of the Editorial Board.

If there is a conflict of interest between the editor or reviewer and the author of the article, the article must be transferred to another editor or reviewer, respectively.

The evaluation of the article should not be biased. The presence of a conflict of interest declared by any of the participants of review process should not in itself lead to a refusal to publish the paper, since the most important criterion for evaluating a manuscript is its scientific quality.