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( Conflict of Interest Policies )

Red Flower Publications requires all authors, reviewers and editors to disclose any potential conflicts of interest.

Authors

All authors must complete the International Medical Journal Editors' Committee (ICMJE) form on disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. It is important to complete it precisely. If you do not declare a conflict of interest and it is later found that you have a conflict of interest, your paper will lose credibility. Conversely, full disclosure of conflicts of interest does not prevent the publication of the article, but allows you to openly communicate with readers.

Peer Reviewers  

All peer reviewers must declare any conflict of interest when accepting to review the paper. If peer reviewers are unable to make the review objective, they cannot review the manuscript.

Editors

The editor-in-chief of any Red Flower Publications journal is bound by the same conflict of interest principles as the author. The editors-in-chief must declare any financial or personal conflict of interest for each submitted manuscript, and decisions on the manuscript where they have a conflict of interest will be made by another editor. The editor-in-chief receives conflicts of interest forms from each author in the paper he is reviewing. In order to preserve editorial integrity and eliminate bias, the editor is unaware of the fee structure for any paper he or she reviews. The editor-in-chief will not make editorial decisions on manuscripts ordered or requested by the editor-in-chief. If the Chief Editor, Associate Editor or a member of the Editorial Board submits a paper to his or her journal Red Flower Publications, the policy is that another editor of that journal is responsible for the editorial decisions (see also COPE Case 05-22 "Editor as Author in own journal" according to Article 9 of the COPE Ethical Editing Guide). In this case, we also require at least three independent peer review comments.