Conflict of Interest
| Last update: 2021/05/19 |
Conflict of Interest Form
Conflict of Interest
- Conflicts of interest refer to any situation that interferes with, or reasonably interferes with, the complete and objective presentation, thorough review, editorial decisions, or publication of research or non-research papers submitted to the Journal of Rescue and Relief, published by the Applied Science Higher Education Institute.
- Conflicts of interest exist when professional judgment regarding primary interests (research credibility) is affected by secondary interests. There is nothing immoral about a mutual benefit, but it must be clearly stated. All authors must state all conflicts of interest in their accompanying letter and in the "Conflicts of Interest" section when submitting. When authors have no conflict of interest, they should state: "The author(s) declare that they have no conflict of interest with respect to the authorship or publication of this article." The Editor may request more information in this regard.
- Editors and reviewers are also required to declare any conflict of interest, and if there is a conflict of interest, they will be excluded from the review process.
- Expressing all conflicts of interest is essential for transparent reporting of research. Failure to declare a conflict of interest can lead to the immediate rejection of an article. If a conflict of interest is not disclosed after publication, the Applied Science Higher Education Institute will act in accordance with COPE guidelines.
- Conflicts of interest can be financial, non-financial, professional, or personal. Conflicts of interest can arise in relation to an organization or an individual.
Financial Conflicts of Interest
Conflicts of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Receiving reimbursement, expenses, funding, or salary from an organization that may contribute to any kind of financial gain or loss from the publication of the article, either now or in the future.
- Ownership of stocks or other financial interests in an organization that may contribute to any financial gain or loss from the publication of the article, whether present or future.
- Ownership of or involvement in patents related to the content of the article in question.
- Receiving reimbursement, expenses, funding, or salary from the organization that owns or has patents related to the content of the article.
Authorship and Composition
An author is generally regarded as a person who has made a significant intellectual contribution to the publication of a research work.
The ICMJE recommendation is that authorship of an article or book can be based on the following four criteria:
- Significant assistance in understanding or designing the intended scientific work, or collecting, analyzing, or interpreting data.
- Drafting or modifying the work in question, especially with regard to significant intellectual content.
- Final approval of the version to be published.
- Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work to ensure that questions about the integrity or reliability of each part of the work are properly reviewed and analyzed.
In addition to being accountable for the parts of the work that the authors have completed, an author should be able to identify which authors are responsible for specific parts of the work. Authors should also ensure the integrity of the collaboration of their fellow authors.
All individuals selected as authors must meet all four criteria of authorship, and all those who meet these criteria must be identified as authors of the work in question.
Writing is not merely about contributing to fundraising, data collection, technical assistance, writing collaboration, or overall association with the research team. The names of those who do not meet these four criteria should be mentioned in the "Acknowledgments" section.
Acknowledgments
The names of those who have contributed to the scientific work but do not meet these four criteria should be mentioned in the "Acknowledgments" section. The authors must ensure that anyone whose name is included in the "Acknowledgments" section is authorized to have their name mentioned in this section of the scholarly work in question.
Material and financial support must also be announced. All sources of funding and other support for the project or research concerned, including funds received from business partners, institutions, and other sources, must be reported. Counseling and financial resources paid directly to researchers should also be mentioned.
The scholarly involvement of authors or anyone else who has contributed to the preparation of the content of the article should be announced along with their source of funding, as described in the guidelines of the Writers' Association.
Author Information
Author information is published by journals to make the authors and their institutions recognizable to the scientific community. Author information is also used to retrieve data from databases and bibliographic indexes, although many databases do not include author information or complete author information.
We know that some authors have first or last names or middle names, while some authors do not have middle names. In some cases, some names or surnames may have already been used as middle names in another journal. It is the policy of journals published by the Applied Science Higher Education Institute to publish the author's information, including names, suffixes, and prefixes, in the same manner as provided by the corresponding author.
To ensure the accuracy of the author's information and to avoid any errors in the author's name, spelling, and bibliographic database records and indexes, and to minimize changes in post-publication articles, the authors of the Journal of Rescue and Relief, when submitting articles, are required to review and approve the written submission that is automatically generated from the author's information.
This includes how author information appears in databases such as PubMed or Scopus. Therefore, authors should record their information at the time of submission in a way that is consistent with their previous bibliographic information.
Changes in Authorship
Any changes to authorship (i.e., arrangement, addition, or removal of authors) after initial submission must be approved by all authors.
Authors must decide and agree on the order of authorship among themselves. In addition, any changes must be explained to the Editor.
In accordance with the COPE guidelines, the Applied Science Higher Education Institute requires written confirmation from all authors that they agree to any changes to the authorship of the article being submitted or published. This confirmation must be sent directly by email by the authors.
It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that all authors agree to the proposed changes.
If there is disagreement among the authors and no satisfactory agreement is reached, the authors should contact their institutions to resolve the problem. Resolving authorship disputes is not the responsibility of the Editor.
Changes in the authorship of a published article can only be corrected through an appropriate post-publication correction.
Unique ID
ORCID is a nonprofit and community-based effort to provide a registry of unique researcher identities and a transparent way of linking research activities and results to these identifiers. The Journal of Rescue and Relief encourages the use of these unique identifiers to identify those who submit articles to journals or those who are selected as reviewers for articles.
Citation
Research and non-research papers (e.g., theoretical, evaluation, and review papers) should have relevant and applicable references to support the claims presented in the article. Excessive and inappropriate self-citation or concerted efforts by different authors to cite themselves excessively are considered inappropriate.
Authors should consider the following guidelines when preparing their papers:
- Any statement in an article that relies on information from another source should be cited, unless it represents the author's own ideas or findings or is considered common knowledge.
- Authors should not cite adaptations of the original work. For example, they should cite the original article rather than a review article that cited the original article.
- Authors need to make sure that their citations are accurate; that is, they must ensure that the cited sources support their statements in the article and should not misrepresent anything that the source does not support.
- Authors should not cite sources they have not studied.
- Authors should not rely excessively on their own publications or on publications of their friends, colleagues, or institutions.
- Authors should not cite only articles from one source or country.
- Authors should not use too many citations to prove a point.
- Authors should cite sources that have been peer-reviewed.
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