Conflict of Interest Policy

Triangulasi: Jurnal Pendidikan Kebahasaan, Kesastraan, dan Pembelajaran requires all participants in the publication process—authors, peer reviewers, and editors—to transparently disclose any potential conflicts of interest (also known as competing interests). In accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines, this policy aims to ensure that the editorial process remains objective, unbiased, and completely free from undue influence.

1. Definition of Conflict of Interest A conflict of interest exists when a primary academic or editorial judgment may be influenced, or perceived to be influenced, by a secondary interest. These secondary interests can be:

  • Financial: Funding, grants, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or patent applications related to the research.

  • Non-Financial (Personal/Professional): Personal relationships, academic rivalries, recent collaborations, or institutional affiliations that could compromise objectivity.

2. Author Obligations

  • All submitting authors must explicitly declare any financial and non-financial conflicts of interest related to the submitted work.

  • This declaration must be included in the manuscript under a dedicated heading titled "Declaration of Competing Interest" (placed immediately before the References section).

  • If no conflict exists, the authors must explicitly state: "The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

3. Reviewer Obligations

  • Invited peer reviewers must critically assess whether they have a conflict of interest before accepting a review assignment.

  • Reviewers must decline the invitation to review if they:

    • Are currently employed at the same institution as any of the authors.

    • Have co-authored a publication or collaborated on a research project with any of the authors within the past three years.

    • Have a direct personal relationship or professional rivalry with the authors.

  • If a reviewer discovers a potential conflict after receiving the manuscript, they must immediately contact the handling editor and withdraw from the review process.

4. Editor and Editorial Board Obligations

  • Editors must recuse themselves from handling manuscripts if they have any financial, personal, or professional conflicts of interest with the authors.

  • Submissions by Editorial Staff: If an Editor-in-Chief, Section Editor, or Editorial Board member submits a manuscript to Triangulasi, the peer review and decision-making process will be assigned to a different, independent editor. The submitting editor will be completely restricted from accessing the journal's backend system regarding their own manuscript to ensure a fair, blind peer-review process.

5. Post-Publication Discovery of Undisclosed Conflicts If a conflict of interest is brought to the journal's attention after an article has been published, the Editor-in-Chief will initiate an investigation following the relevant COPE flowcharts. Depending on the severity of the omission, the journal may publish a formal Correction (Corrigendum/Erratum), an Expression of Concern, or, in extreme cases of deliberate manipulation, retract the article.