A conflict of interest exists when financial, personal, professional, or institutional relationships could influence, or appear to influence, a person's judgement about a manuscript. Jurnal Penelitian Pendidikan (JPP) requires everyone involved in the publication process to disclose such interests.
Authors
Authors must disclose, in the manuscript, any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or their interpretation, and all sources of funding for the research. Examples include employment, consultancies, honoraria, grants, patents, and personal relationships. If there is no conflict of interest, authors state: "The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest."
Reviewers
Reviewers must decline to review, or inform the editor, if they have a conflict of interest with the manuscript, such as a competitive, collaborative, or personal relationship with any of the authors or institutions involved, or if they believe they can identify the authors and cannot review impartially. Reviewers must not use unpublished information from a manuscript for their own advantage.
Editors
Editors do not handle manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest. Such manuscripts are assigned to another editor or editorial board member, who manages the review and decision independently. Manuscripts submitted by members of the editorial team go through the same double-blind review process as all other submissions, and the editor concerned has no access to the review records.