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Conflict of Interest Policy
A conflict of interest (competing interest) exists when financial, professional, institutional, or personal relationships could influence, or could be seen to influence, a person's judgement about a manuscript. Having a conflict of interest is not wrong in itself; failing to declare it is. JPK : Jurnal Penelitian Kesehatan requires all authors, reviewers, and editors to disclose any potential conflict, following ICMJE and COPE recommendations.
Types of conflicts of interest
- Financial: research funding, salary, consultancy fees, honoraria, shares, patents, or payments from organisations (e.g. pharmaceutical, medical device, nutrition, or health-insurance companies) that may gain or lose from the publication.
- Institutional: the study evaluates a programme, service, product, or hospital in which the author's institution has a direct interest.
- Professional or personal: close collaboration, rivalry, family relationship, or supervisor–student relationship with people connected to the manuscript.
- Non-financial: strong political, religious, or ideological beliefs related to the topic that could affect objectivity.
Authors
- All manuscripts must include a Conflict of Interest statement before the reference list. If none exists, write: "The authors declare no conflict of interest."
- All sources of funding for the research and for manuscript preparation must be stated in a Funding statement, including grant numbers where available. The role of the funder in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, and the decision to publish must be described.
- Authors may ask the editor to exclude specific reviewers, giving a reason.
Reviewers
- Reviewers must decline an invitation, or inform the editor, if they have a conflict with the authors, their institution, or the funder, or if they recognise the authors and cannot review objectively.
- Reviewers must not use unpublished information from a manuscript for their own advantage.
Editors
- Editors must not handle manuscripts in which they have a conflict, including manuscripts from colleagues in the same study programme or close collaborators. Such manuscripts are assigned to another editor with no conflict.
- Because most editors are affiliated with STIKES Katolik St. Vincentius a Paulo Surabaya, manuscripts submitted by members of the editorial team are handled by an editor who is not a co-author and has no conflict, are reviewed by at least two external reviewers under double-blind review, and the submitting editor is excluded from all access to the review process and the decision. The share of articles by editorial team members in any issue is kept limited.
- Commercial income, including the article processing charge, has no influence on editorial decisions.
Undisclosed conflicts
If an undisclosed conflict of interest is discovered after submission or publication, the editor will act according to COPE flowcharts. Possible outcomes include requesting a declaration, publishing a correction, or, where the conflict invalidates the findings, retraction.
