A conflict of interest exists when financial, professional, or personal relationships could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, a person's judgment. Journal of Software Engineering Ampera (Journal-SEA) requires all parties in the publication process to disclose potential conflicts.

Authors

Authors must disclose any financial support (funding sources and grant numbers), employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or personal relationships that could influence the work. A Conflict of Interest or Declaration of Competing Interest statement must be included in the manuscript; if there is none, authors should state: “The authors declare no conflict of interest.”

Reviewers

Reviewers must decline to review a manuscript if they have a conflict of interest, such as a close collaboration, competition, or personal relationship with the authors, or a financial interest in the subject. They must not use unpublished information from the manuscript for their own benefit.

Editors

Editors do not handle manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest. Manuscripts submitted by members of the editorial board are handled by another editor, and the authoring editor is excluded from all decisions on that manuscript.