Our journal is committed to maintaining the highest standards of transparency and ethical integrity in research publishing. To ensure that all published work is free from any undue influence, we require all authors, reviewers, and editorial board members to disclose any potential conflicts of interest that could bias their work. This policy helps to maintain trust among authors, reviewers, readers, and the wider research community.

So far we have followed the guidelines in COPE which can be accessed on the following page https://publicationethics.org/competinginterests