Conflicts of Interest Policy
It is the responsibility of authors to provide, in the Acknowledgments section, a general statement disclosing any conflicting interests relevant to the study. All funding sources for the project, institutional and corporate, should be credited in the Acknowledgments section.
If a manuscript concerns a commercial product, the manufacturer’s name must be indicated in the Materials and Methods section or elsewhere in the text, as appropriate, in an obvious manner.
- All authors must disclose any commercial affiliations, consultancies, stock or equity interests, and patent-licensing arrangements that could pose a potential conflict of interest.
- Conflicts may include financial or non-financial relationships that might affect the author’s objectivity or be perceived to do so.
- Details disclosed to the editor will remain confidential.
- Inclusion of a company name in the author address lines does not constitute disclosure.
As per COPE Guidelines
RAME Publishers follows the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) flowcharts for handling suspected undisclosed conflicts of interest, both during peer review and post-publication.
What to do if the reviewer suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a submitted manuscript
What to do if the reader suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a published article
