Conflict of interest

To ensure objectivity, neutrality and transparency in research and to ensure that accepted principles of ethical and professional conduct have been followed, authors and peer-reviewers participating in the manuscript submission stage should include information regarding sources of funding and potential conflicts of interest, financial or non-financial, – whether they actually had an influence. Submissions with undeclared conflicts that are later revealed may be rejected. Published articles may need to be re-assessed, have a corrigendum published, or in serious cases be retracted.

The corresponding author must collect the conflict of interest (listed above) disclosure from all authors and declare them on behalf of all authors during manuscript submission stage. Declared conflicts of interest will be considered by the editor and reviewers.

The journal "Lex Sportiva"  intends to prevent from the conflict of interest assigning submissions to editors and inviting peer-reviewers. They should decline in any of the below situations occur and declare any conflicts to the journal. 

The types of conflicts of interests for editors and peer-reviewers are:

- editors and/or peer-reviewers have a recent publication or current submission with any author of the manuscript;
- editors and/or peer-reviewers share or recently shared an affiliation with any author of the manuscript;
- editors and/or peer-reviewers collaborate or recently collaborated with any author of the manuscript;
- editors and/or peer-reviewers have a close personal connection to any author of the manuscript;
- editors and/or peer-reviewers have a financial interest in the subject of the work of the manuscript;
- editors and/or peer-reviewers feel unable to be objective for the manuscript.