The Eclética Química upholds a rigorous conflict-of-interest policy to preserve the impartiality and credibility of its editorial process. All participants in the publication process — including authors, reviewers, and editors — are required to disclose any circumstances that could influence, or be perceived as controlling, the evaluation, publication, or interpretation of scientific work.

Authors
Authors or the Corresponding authors (on behalf of all authors) are obliged to disclose any potential conflict of interest, which can be of a personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial nature. It can occur when authors, reviewers or editors have interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of a manuscript.

The author(s) should declare in a signed document any potential conflict of interest that may have influenced the work. This document must be uploaded as a supplementary file upon submission or declared in the proper cover letter template.

Example of a declaration when there is no conflict of interest:
"On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author declares and signs that there is no conflict of interest involving this work."

Example of declaration of conflict of interest:
"This study was financed by a grant from (name, city, and country of Corporation). Dr. (surname) is on the scientific advisory board of (name, city, and country of Corporation). Dr. (surname) is a consultant and shareholder of (name, city, and country of Corporation). Drs. (surnames) declared no conflicts of interest associated with this study."

Editors and Reviewers
Editors should avoid making decisions on manuscripts that conflict with their interests, such as those submitted by authors from their department, research collaborators or relatives.

The reviewer should inform the editors of any conflicts of interest which may influence the evaluation of the manuscript and must declare themselves unqualified to review it before beginning the review. Examples of relationships with the author(s): participating or having participated in a research project; maintaining or having maintained scientific collaboration with research groups; having a mentoring relationship with the author; having a financial interest in the project involved in the manuscript or being related to the author(s).

Declaring a conflict of interest does not automatically disqualify a manuscript. The Editorial Committee will review each case and may: publish a conflict-of-interest statement with the article, appoint alternative reviewers, or, in severe cases, retract the article or issue a public correction. However, failure to disclose a conflict of interest that is later discovered may lead to serious editorial actions, including manuscript disqualification or public notification.