Conflict of Interest

CCIT Journal upholds impartiality in all stages of publication. A conflict of interest exists when a financial, personal, professional, or institutional relationship could be seen to influence the handling or evaluation of a manuscript.

Authors must disclose, at submission, any relationship that could be perceived as influencing the work, including funding sources, employment, consultancies, ownership interests, and close personal relationships with editors or reviewers. If there is nothing to declare, the manuscript should include the statement “The authors declare no conflict of interest.”

Editors must not handle a manuscript when they are an author of it, or when they have a close relationship or competing interest with an author. In such cases the manuscript is assigned to another editor, and the conflicted editor has no access to the review process or decision.

Reviewers (Bestari Partners) must not review a manuscript in which they are involved directly or indirectly, or where they have a relationship with the authors that could affect their objectivity. A reviewer who realizes a conflict exists must inform the editor and decline the review.

Journal management keeps the editorial decision independent from commercial, institutional, and funding considerations.

Undisclosed conflicts of interest found after publication may be handled through a correction or, in serious cases, a retraction (see Correction and Retraction).

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