Conflict of Interest

Conflict of Interest Policy

A conflict of interest exists when financial, institutional, or personal relationships could inappropriately influence, or appear to influence, a person's judgment in the publication process. Quagga: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Biologi requires all parties to declare such conflicts.

Authors. Authors must disclose all funding sources and any financial or personal relationships that could bias their work, in a Conflict of Interest Statement placed before the References. If there is none, authors should state: "The authors declare no conflict of interest."

Reviewers. Reviewers must decline an invitation, or inform the editor, if they have a conflict with the manuscript or its authors, for example a recent collaboration, the same institution, a supervisory relationship, a family relationship, or a competing study. Reviewers must not use unpublished information from a manuscript for their own advantage.

Editors. Editors must not handle manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest. Manuscripts submitted by the Editor-in-Chief, editorial board members, or staff of the publisher (Program Studi Pendidikan Biologi FKIP Universitas Kuningan) are assigned to an independent editor and undergo the same double-blind review as all other submissions. The submitting editor has no access to the review process or the decision.

Undisclosed conflicts. Conflicts discovered after publication are handled under our Allegations of Research Misconduct policy and may lead to a correction or retraction.