The Health Science and Nursing Research Journal (HSNRJ) requires authors, reviewers, and editors to disclose relationships or interests that could reasonably be perceived as influencing their scholarly judgment.

A conflict of interest does not necessarily imply misconduct. Transparency allows editors and readers to appropriately evaluate potential influences.

Authors

Authors must disclose relevant:

• financial relationships;
• employment or consultancy;
• grants or funding;
• intellectual property interests;
• personal or professional relationships;
• institutional relationships; and
• other interests that could reasonably influence the research or its interpretation.

If no relevant conflict exists, authors should state:

“The authors declare no conflicts of interest.”

Reviewers

Reviewers must disclose conflicts that could compromise or reasonably appear to compromise their impartiality.

Where a significant conflict exists, reviewers should decline the assignment.

Editors

Editors must recuse themselves from manuscripts where personal, professional, financial, institutional, or other relationships could reasonably affect editorial independence.

Such manuscripts should be assigned to another qualified editor.

Funding and Editorial Decisions

Sources of research funding must be disclosed.

Where applicable, authors should describe the funder's role in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, manuscript preparation, or publication decisions.

Editorial decisions at HSNRJ are not determined by funding status or commercial considerations.