Conflict of Interest Policy

Conflict of Interest Policy:

Ibn Sina University Journal is committed to ensuring the highest standards of objectivity, fairness, and integrity in scholarly publishing. A conflict of interest arises when personal, financial, academic, or institutional relationships could potentially bias or inappropriately influence the actions, evaluations, or decisions of authors, reviewers, or editors.

1. Authors’ Responsibilities:

Upon submission, authors are strictly required to declare all financial and personal relationships that might bias or be perceived to bias their work. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • Direct financial support, grants, or funding from commercial or interested entities.

  • Employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, or patent applications and registrations.

  • If no conflict exists, authors must explicitly state the following in their manuscript: "The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article."

2. Reviewers’ Responsibilities:

Reviewers must promptly recuse themselves and decline the review invitation if they encounter any of the following situations:

  • A direct personal, familial, or professional relationship with any of the authors.

  • Recent or ongoing research collaborations, or a close mentor-mentee relationship with the authors.

  • Direct financial or academic competition with the core content of the submitted manuscript.

  • Working within the exact same department or specialized unit as the author.

  • Reviewers must never utilize or exploit unpublished data or insights from the manuscript for their own personal or professional benefit.

3. Editorial Board’s Responsibilities:

  • Editors must recuse themselves from handling and managing any manuscript where a conflict of interest exists (e.g., if the paper is submitted by a close colleague or relates to an editor's competing research project). In such cases, the evaluation management is assigned to an independent board member.

  • Editorial submissions (mancripts co-authored by members of the editorial board or the Editor-in-Chief) are subjected to rigorous, independent processing. The submitting editor is completely blinded and excluded from the entire peer-review tracking and decision-making cycle.