CONFLICT OF INTERESTS
All authors, peer-reviewers, editors or members of the Editorial Board should disclose any potential CoI in connection to any manuscript submitted for publication to Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT.
When a possible CoI is communicated by any of the above mentioned agents, said information might be disclosed as a footnote to the respective manuscript.
“Conflict of Interest” (CoI) or “Competing Interest” (CI) is defined as any kind of conflict between a person’s private interests and public obligations. Conflicts of Interest can be financial and non-financial.
Some examples of financial conflicts of interests include:
- Employment or voluntary involvement
- Collaborations with advocacy groups relating to the content of the article
- Grants from an entity, paid to the author or organization
- Personal fees received by the authors as honoraria, royalties, consulting fees, lecture fees, or testimonies
- Patents held or pending by the authors, their institutions, funding organizations, or licensed to an entity, whether earning royalties or not
- Royalties being received by the authors or their institutions
- Stock or share ownership
- Benefits related to the development of products as an outcome of the work
Examples of non-financial conflicts of interests include:
- Receipt of drugs, specialist equipment, tools, computer programs, or digital applications
- Access to data repositories, archival resources, museum collections, by an entity that might benefit, or be at a disadvantage financially or reputationally from the published findings
- Holding a position on the boards of industry bodies or private companies that might benefit, or be at a disadvantage financially or reputationally from the published findings
- Writing assistance or administrative support from a person or organization that might benefit, or be at a disadvantage from the published findings
- Personal, political, religious, ideological, academic and intellectual competing interests which are perceived to be relevant to the published content
- Involvement in legal action related to the work
Conflict of Interests: Authors
By submitting the Title Form and signing the Ethical Statement all authors declare the existence or lack of CoI. In the Title Form they are explicitly requested to name all funding sources and later on acknowledge them in the acknowledgements’ section in their manuscript. The same applies for any and all co-authors of said manuscript.
In order to avoid any possible CoI any past co-authors, sponsors or collaborators to the author of a submitted manuscript should not be considered as reviewers or editors.
Conflict of Interest: Reviewers & Editors
Peer reviewers and Editors are asked to state whether or not there is a Conflict of Interest when approached with a request to review or edit/ consider a manuscript for publication. They are required and expected to state any possible CoI in their response when confirming their willingness to work on the manuscript.
Possible CoIs could include but are not limited to: awareness of the identity of the author, personal or other relationship to the author, etc.
In case CoI is reported the peer reviewers and editors would be changed with such that do not have CoI.
Each peer reviewer declares lack of CoIs by singing the review form prior to submitting it to SILC.
In case any of the editors, members of the same institution as the editors, or family members submit a paper to be considered for publication by Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, the manuscript is to be handled by one of the other editors who does not have CoI with any of the mentioned agents. That other editor will select reviewers and make any decisions on the manuscript.
