Policy

Editors, editorial board members, and editorial staff of Ethnomathematics Journal must declare any interest that could, or could appear to, affect their editorial judgement. The journal follows the COPE guidance on conflicts of interest.

Examples of competing interests

• A recent or current collaboration, co-authorship, or shared project with an author.
• The same institution, or a supervisory, family, or close personal link with an author.
• A rivalry with an author, or strong disagreement with the work.
• A financial interest in the topic or in a related product, or a competing project or publication.
• A strong personal, political, or ideological position that could influence the decision.

What editors do

• Declare interests when they take up the role, and update the declaration when something changes.
• Tell the Editor-in-Chief when a manuscript raises an interest, and step aside from it.
• Do not take part in the discussion of, or the decision on, a manuscript they are in conflict with, and do not see the review reports of such a manuscript.

What the journal does

• A manuscript with an editorial conflict is assigned to an editor who has no interest in it.
• If the Editor-in-Chief has a conflict, the manuscript is handled by another editor and the Editor-in-Chief does not see it.
• If an interest was not declared and is found later, the editors reassess the decision, and may correct the record or act under Publication Ethics.

Transparency

Where an interest is relevant to a published article, for example an editor who is an author, the article states it. See Submissions from Editors.

Questions

Write to ethnomath@uny.ac.id.