Conflict of Interest
UJPR complies with the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)’s uniform requirements on Conflicts of Interest. Conflicts of interest comprise those which may not be fully apparent and which may influence the judgement of the author, reviewers, and editors. They have been described as those which, when revealed later, would make a reasonable reader feel misled or deceived.
During the submission process, authors are expected to disclose to the editor any potential conflicts of interest. If a submitted manuscript is approved for publication, any conflicts of interest will be disclosed in the final published work. A manuscript's possibility of conflict of interest does not guarantee rejection. When invited to evaluate a paper, reviewers are expected to disclose to the editor any potential conflicts of interest. Neither the reviewer nor the review report are invalidated by a conflict of interest.
Editors and Editorial Board members are expected to abide by the same conflict of interest rules as authors when submitting manuscripts for consideration to the Universal Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (UJPR). The editor who is also the author of a manuscript submitted to the journal by the editors themselves will not be involved in the editorial or review process and will not receive any feedback. In the event of a conflict of interest, editors will step away from the article review process.
Examples of conflicts of interest include the following:
- Having been paid for consultancy services.
- Having been granted funding for research.
- Having been employed by a related company.
- Holding stocks or shares in a company which might be affected by the publication of your paper.
- Having received funds reimbursing you for attending a related symposium, or talk.
Author responsibilities with relation to competing interests
- Your donation acknowledges all sources of financial support, including sponsorship from pharmaceutical companies.
- Any financial or commercial ties that could appear to be in conflict of interest with the contribution are disclosed in the covering letter that goes with it. Any potential conflicts of interest will be discussed with the editor to determine whether or not they should be disclosed in the journal along with the published contribution.
- that you have not signed a contract with any of the sponsors of the research that is reported in the contribution that restricts you from publishing the research's findings, both positively and negatively, or that requires you to publish the research without the sponsor's prior consent.
- that you have checked the manuscript submission guidelines to see whether the journal requires a Declaration of Conflicting Interests and have complied with the requirements specified where such a policy exists.
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