Believers Journal of Health Sciences (BJHS) is committed to transparent and impartial scholarly publishing. This policy explains how authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial-board members must disclose and manage interests that could influence, or reasonably appear to influence, research, peer review, or editorial decision-making. A conflict of interest does not necessarily indicate wrongdoing; however, undisclosed interests may compromise global confidence in the objectivity, reliability, and integrity of published work.
All authors must disclose any financial, professional, institutional, or personal relationships that are relevant to the submission, including:
All manuscripts must feature a distinct Conflict of Interest Statement before processing loops. Authors must employ one of the templates below:
Notice: If a corporate funder played a role in study design, data collection, analytical steps, or the submission decision, this involvement must be explicitly recorded within the Methods or Declaration parameters.
Reviewers must evaluate potential clashes prior to accepting evaluation memos. Peer panels must decline review assignments if they share recent student/supervisor loops, direct employment, close collaborative professional ties with an author, active investments in the target product, or direct involvement in closely competing unpublished research fields. Confidential manuscript data must never be leveraged for personal or academic benefit.
Handling Editors are disqualified from processing manuscripts if they have authored/co-authored text with the submitters, share personal or institutional ties with the author group, or maintain direct commercial interests in the target findings. Clashed assignments are immediately reallocated to neutral, non-conflicted board components. Editors are strictly bound to keep manuscript text confidential.
Disclosed interests do not automatically prevent a paper from being published. However, failure to disclose relevant conflicts is processed as an integrity breach. Before publication, this leads to processing delays, revision requests, or outright desk rejection.
After publication: If an undisclosed clash is verified, BJHS coordinates corrective notices based on the severity, including formal Corrections, Expressions of Concern, university ethics board alerts, or permanent Retractions if the reliability of the work is compromised.
All incoming conflict records are processed discreetly and shared exclusively with coordinators directly involved in editorial assessment or ethical investigations. Valid declaration lines are published alongside the article body text, ensuring absolute transparency for readers, clinicians, and researchers utilizing the published research data arrays.