Conflict of Interest

A conflict of interest exists when a person’s judgment about a manuscript could be influenced, or could be seen to be influenced, by financial, personal, academic, or institutional interests. Edumatika : Jurnal Riset Pendidikan Matematika requires all authors, editors, and reviewers to disclose such interests so that they can be managed transparently.

1. Types of Conflict of Interest

Type Examples in mathematics education research
Financial Funding, employment, consultancy, or royalties related to the work; owning or selling a learning application, software, textbook, or media evaluated in the study
Personal Close family relationships, friendships, or rivalries with authors, editors, or reviewers
Academic Recent collaboration or co-authorship (within the last three years); a supervisor–student relationship; competing research on the same topic
Institutional Working at the same institution as an author; involvement in the school or program being evaluated

Having an interest is not in itself wrong. What matters is that it is disclosed and managed.

2. Authors

  • All authors must declare any conflict of interest in the Conflict of Interest statement under Declarations, and all sources of funding in the Funding Statement, including the grant number.
  • If there is none, state: “The authors declare no conflict of interest.”
  • Authors may ask that specific persons not be invited as reviewers, giving reasons, in the Comments for the Editor box.

3. Editors

  • Editors do not handle manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest; the manuscript is reassigned to another editor.
  • Manuscripts submitted by members of the editorial board are handled by another editor, and the submitting editor has no access to the review process or the decision. Manuscripts submitted by the Editor-in-Chief are handled by another member of the editorial board, and the Editor-in-Chief has no access to the review process or the decision.
  • Wherever possible, manuscripts from authors at IAIN Kerinci are handled by editors and reviewed by reviewers from other institutions.
  • Editors do not use unpublished information from manuscripts for their own research.

4. Reviewers

  • Reviewers must decline the invitation, or inform the editor immediately, if they have a conflict of interest with the authors or the work, including working at the same institution or having collaborated with an author in the last three years.
  • Reviewers must also tell the editor if they know or suspect the identity of the authors under double-blind review.

5. Undisclosed Conflicts

If an undisclosed conflict of interest comes to light, the journal handles it according to the COPE flowcharts. Depending on its seriousness, the outcome may be a request for clarification, a re-review of the manuscript, publication of a correction that adds the missing declaration, or, in serious cases, retraction (see Allegations of Research Misconduct).