A conflict of interest exists when financial, personal, academic, institutional, or other relationships could reasonably be perceived to influence a person's judgement about a manuscript. Edutech: Jurnal Teknologi Pendidikan requires all parties to disclose such interests, following the COPE Core Practices.
Authors must disclose all potential conflicts of interest and all sources of funding in a "Declaration of Conflicting Interests" and a "Funding" statement in the manuscript. Where a funder had a role in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, or the decision to publish, this must be described. If there is no conflict, authors state: "The authors declare no conflict of interest."
Reviewers must declare any conflict and decline to review where they have a personal, institutional, financial, or competitive relationship with the authors or the work, or where they recognise the authors' identity under double-blind review.
Editors and editorial staff must declare their own conflicts and recuse themselves from handling such manuscripts; responsibility is then delegated to another editor who has no conflict.
Submissions from editorial board members. Manuscripts authored by the Editor-in-Chief, editors, or editorial staff are handled by an editor with no conflict and are reviewed by external reviewers only. The author has no access to the review process or the decision on their own manuscript.
Undisclosed conflicts of interest discovered after publication are handled under the journal's procedures for allegations of misconduct and may lead to a correction or retraction.
