Conflict of Interest

A conflict of interest exists when financial, personal, academic, or institutional relationships could influence, or appear to influence, a person's judgment about a manuscript. Didascein (Journal of English Education) requires all parties involved in the publication process to disclose any such conflicts.

Authors

Authors must declare all sources of funding and any relationships that could be seen as influencing the research in a Conflict of Interest statement at the end of the manuscript. If there is none, authors should state: "The authors declare no conflict of interest."

Reviewers

Reviewers must decline to review a manuscript if they have a conflict of interest, for example a close collaborative, supervisory, institutional, or personal relationship with any of the authors, or a competing interest in the research. Reviewers who become aware of a conflict during the review must inform the editor immediately.

Editors

Editors must not handle manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest. Manuscripts submitted by members of the editorial board, including the Editor-in-Chief, are handled by another editor and undergo the same double-blind peer review process as all other submissions. The author has no involvement in any editorial decision on their own manuscript.

Undisclosed Conflicts

Undisclosed conflicts of interest that come to light after publication are handled under the journal's Allegations of Research Misconduct and Correction and Retraction policies, in accordance with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

See also our Publication Ethics and Peer Review policy.