Competing Interests

Competing Interests

Conflict of Interest/ Competing Interests

Margalla Papers adheres to the Conflict-of-Interest policy recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). In its Guidelines on Good Publication Practice, COPE states, "Conflicts of interest arise when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that are not fully apparent and may influence their judgments on what is published."

All individuals involved with a manuscript, including author(s), editor(s), reviewer(s), and commenter(s), must declare all potential competing interests. The intent of this policy is not to prevent author(s) with any relationship or interest from publishing their work but rather to adopt transparency such that reviewer(s), editor(s), the publisher, and, most importantly, the reader(s) can make objective judgments about the results.

All authors must indicate any conflicts of interest affecting their proposed publication. 

Funding for research projects (if any) that made the study possible must be indicated.

If the author(s) gives no competing interests, it will read, "The author(s) declares that he has no competing interests."

The editorial team of Margalla Papers may decide not to publish a paper if they believe that the competing interests declared by the author(s) have compromised the objectivity or validity of the paper's research, analyses, or interpretations. If the editorial team finds that the author(s) has competing interests not declared upon submission, the manuscript may be rejected, issued a formal correction, or retracted.

Declaration

While submitting the research paper to Margalla Papers, the author(s) may include such a declaration at the end of the manuscript.

All forms of financial support, commercial or financial involvement, and any agreement signed with any sponsor that might present a conflict of interest related to the contribution must be included in the declaration statement/ acknowledgement.