GUIDELINES FOR CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

Conflicts of interests  – these are the factors that negatively affect the objectivity, or can be perceived as interference in the process of peer review, editorial decision-making, publishing and presentation of the manuscript.

Conflict of interests is considered to be a direct personal relationship between the reviewer and the author (second-degree kinship relations, legal relations, marriage), professional relationships or direct scientific cooperation within the last two years preceding the year of the review, financial relations (joint research grants, patent applications, fees)

PROCEDURE:
1. All persons related to the manuscript, comment or evaluate this submission (authors, editors, reviewers and readers) should declare a conflict of interest.
2. The authors should indicate whether they are the editorial board members of the journal, to which the manuscript is submitted.
3. Reviewer should declare whether they have an unbiased opinion about the author of article. If because of a personal relationship with the author the reviewer can not objectively evaluate the article - he should declare this bias or conflict of interest and decline to review the article.
4. If, in the editors’ opinion, there are circumstances that may affect unbiased review, the editorial board does not involve such a reviewer to review.
5. The editorial board reserves the right not to publish the article if the declared conflict of interests threatens the objectivity and reliability of the evaluation of the study.
6. If the editors find a conflict of interest that has not been declared at the time of submission, the article may be rejected.
7. If undeclared conflict of interest will be found after publication, if necessary, the article can be reviewed or deleted.