Conflicts of Interest
A Research Pillars Publishing, neither expects nor receives any financial gains which would affect the process of a specific publication. No company or manufacturing industry is made flexible in drawing their attention towards possible misconduct in maintaining publications of their interest.
No payment by industries and third parties (like companies which sell drugs and finished products) for research or patents, no possible public announcements by medical educators & non-publishing companies, are encouraged in a publication process.
Clinicians having competing interests financially in editing research that in turn provide them income, political & non-profit organizations, consultancies are made explicit and put a far from their influence in a particular publication.
Academic Honesty
Authors are encouraged to disclose any particular explanation or method suggested by a reviewer or editor for a correction is being biased in research conduct or having strong beliefs in their harsh judgments after their successful revision.
Unbiased conduct
Reviewers & editors in the same field should take efforts in finding faults with articles from competing individuals, which delay in publication and further makes authors submit their work to false or lesser journals.
Confidentiality
Manuscripts submitted to journals are privileged communications that are authors’ private, confidential property, and authors may be harmed by premature disclosure of any or all of a manuscript’s details. #
Confidentiality in terms of sharing information about research, paper, book,
Peer-review: Editors are suggested to seek the opinion of a constructive reviewer for most of the research articles. Editors should decide under which context, the manuscript has been accepted for publication, supported by the reviewer’s advice.
The International Society for Medical Publication Professionals provides good practice guidelines, which are aimed at ensuring that “clinical trials sponsored by pharmaceutical companies are published responsibly and ethically”.
Reviewers and editors are also required to declare any competing interests in their reports, as our readers who contribute comments on the site.
Editors Competing Interests
Editorial leaders and editors those who make final recommendations for manuscripts should recuse themselves from editorial decisions if they have relationships that pose potential conflicts of interest related to articles under consideration towards publication
Other editorial staff members participating in editorial decisions should provide editors with a present statement of their conflicts of interest or other financial interest and recuse themselves from decisions towards manuscript in which a conflict of interest exists.
Editorial Staff members should not use the information obtained through manuscript editing, through stakeholders or other staff members for their gain.
Editors should publish regular disclosure statements about potential conflicts of interest related to the commitments of journal staff, board members. (ICMJE)
What conflicts are and effects whom and when?
Conflicts of interests are the major drawback for an ethical publication of one’s (Individual and group) own research which intern affects each individual with risk in research integrity and can motivate one’s private interest and their duties to scientific, academic and publishing activities. Conflicts of interest exist in every stakeholder (author, reviewer, editor) in scientific publishing and hence it is made explicitly public mentioning everyone’s competing interest fair and transparent. Research Pillars Publishing express no conflicts of interest with any academic institutions, funding agencies, research labs, government, media, and public.
Research Pillars Publishing outlines different types of competing interests of their stakeholders and provides the customers with the best possibilities to notice and try to get rid of these personal interests before making a reliable connection and for a better possible relationship.
Financial Conflicts
The financial tie-ups are the major risk proven conflicts that affect his/her responsibilities to publication process with expectations in receiving money, services or gifts. Every individual (author, reviewer, and editor) has been asked to state any such allegations before editing or submitting a manuscript.
We do not encourage an individual (Industry, advisory boards, medical companies who sell their education for a financial reason and companies who sell drugs) in competing unethical practices towards a research, patents, and other scientific expertise that effect publication process and is made explicit and public until and unless the authors expect no competing interest.
Financial conflicts may appear to include (but are not bound to)
Receiving allowances, funds, salary, or incentives from an organization that may anyhow affect financial gain or lose from the publication either now or then.
Having shares, patents, stock options, payments towards editing services of a manuscript which may anyhow affect financial gain or lose from the publication either now or then
Other competing Interest
Competing interest with government, clinical and civic agencies which may for their reputation and funding from organizations lead to disruptions in research activities and these are handled cautiously without any influence towards financial gain.
Manuscripts received towards the journal are made edited and reviewed by the individuals who are not a part of their family, or a colleague of the same academic institution past 10 years, or a friend of his/her, or a competitor having same research challenge which has changed his/her present paradigm. Contributors are asked for his/her concern for any religious beliefs or political issues if any, for any upcoming submission of manuscripts towards the journal.
If anyone is unsure and not know about their competing interests whom and when they fall into may e-mail us for further clarifications regarding conflicts at editor@researchpillars.org