Conflict of Interest

Last updated 28 September 2026

What should be disclosed

Authors should disclose financial and non-financial relationships that a reader could reasonably see as influencing the work. Examples include funding, employment, consultancies, paid speaking, patents, personal relationships and close academic or institutional ties. A disclosure does not automatically disqualify a paper; it allows readers and editors to assess the work in context.

Author declarations

Authors should provide a competing-interest statement and identify the role of any funder in study design, analysis, writing or publication decisions. When there is no relevant conflict, that should also be stated. The statement supplied for an accepted paper is included in the public article record where available.

Reviewers and editors

Reviewers must tell the conference editor about a relationship or interest that could affect their impartiality and decline an assignment when they cannot give an independent assessment. Editors and committee members with a conflict should recuse themselves from the decision and arrange for an unconflicted editor to handle it.

Changes and concerns

If an undisclosed interest becomes known after publication, contact info@set-science.com. SETSCI may add or correct a disclosure, or take further action if the omission affected the integrity of the record. See Publication Ethics.