The Journal of Logistics and International Trade (JLIT) is committed to ensuring transparency, objectivity, and integrity throughout the editorial and publication process. All participants in the publication process—including authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial board members—are required to disclose any actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest that could influence, or reasonably be perceived to influence, their professional judgment.
For Authors
Authors must disclose all financial and non-financial conflicts of interest that may have influenced the design, conduct, interpretation, or reporting of their research.
Examples of conflicts of interest include, but are not limited to:
If no conflicts of interest exist, authors should include the following statement in their manuscript:
"The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest."
For Reviewers
Reviewers must decline a review invitation if they have any conflict of interest that may compromise their objectivity. Such conflicts may include:
Reviewers must not use confidential information obtained during peer review for personal or professional advantage.
For Editors
Editors shall recuse themselves from handling manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest arising from personal relationships, institutional affiliations, collaborative research, financial interests, or any circumstance that could compromise editorial impartiality.
In such cases, the manuscript will be assigned to another qualified editor without conflict of interest.
Editorial Handling
All disclosed conflicts of interest will be evaluated by the Editorial Office. Where appropriate, additional disclosures may be published alongside the article to ensure transparency.
Failure to disclose relevant conflicts of interest may result in manuscript rejection, publication of a correction, retraction, or other editorial actions in accordance with the journal's Publication Ethics and the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
