Conflict of Interest

Jurnal Analis Kesehatan requires authors, reviewers, and editors to disclose any interest that could potentially affect the objectivity of the research, peer-review process, or editorial decisions.

Conflicts of interest may be:

• Financial, such as research funding, honoraria, share ownership, paid consultancy, or relationships with manufacturers of laboratory equipment and reagents.
• Professional or institutional, such as employment relationships, research collaboration, academic competition, or a vested interest in the research outcome.
• Personal, such as family relationships, close friendships, or personal disputes that could affect judgment.
• Academic, such as involvement in similar research or a particular interest in a theory, method, or result.

Authors’ responsibilities

Authors must disclose relevant conflicts of interest, funding sources, and the sponsor’s role in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, and manuscript preparation. If no conflict of interest exists, authors must explicitly state this.

Reviewers’ responsibilities

Reviewers must decline an assignment or disclose a conflict if it could compromise their independent assessment. The editor determines whether the reviewer may continue or should be replaced.

Editors’ responsibilities

An editor must recuse themselves from making a decision when they have a conflict of interest relating to the manuscript. An appointed independent editor will handle the manuscript.

Disclosure of a conflict of interest does not automatically lead to rejection. The editor assesses the nature and extent of the conflict and determines appropriate measures to manage it. Relevant information is included in the published article.