This policy establishes guidelines for authors and editors in decision-making positions affiliated with The Journal of Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (JSCAI) to disclose any relationships with industry (RWI) or potential conflicts.
Authors and Contributors:
The conflict-of-interest disclosure policy for JSCAI requires each author to disclose financial and other interests, regardless of the amount of value, that might be construed as resulting in an actual, potential, or apparent conflict in one’s role as a contributor to JSCAI, (during the time involving the work, from initial conception and planning to present).
Any involvement by a pharmaceutical or medical device company, employees, or medical writers, supported by a pharmaceutical or medical device company must be clearly defined and disclosed in the Conflict-of-Interest disclosure section, the acknowledgement section (if the individual is not an author), or the funding sources section of the manuscript.
Authors must adhere to the following policies:
- Declaration of Interests: All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. If no conflicts exist, the authors must state that.
- Funding Statement: Authors must report any sources of funding received that were used to support their writing or research for the manuscript. If the work was not supported, authors should state the following: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Editors:
The conflict-of-interest disclosure policy for JSCAI requires each Editor to disclose financial and other interests, regardless of the amount of value, that might be construed as resulting in an actual, potential, or apparent conflict in one’s role on the JSCAI Editorial Board. This policy will undergo periodic reviews to ensure its effectiveness and relevance. Amendments may be implemented as needed, and all editors will receive updates regarding any changes to this policy.
Editors adhere to the following policies:
- Editors who make final decisions about manuscripts will recuse themselves from editorial decisions if they have relevant conflicts of interest or relationships that pose potential conflicts related to articles under consideration.
- Any final decisions regarding manuscript publication are made by an editor who does not have any relevant conflicts of interest.
- Editors must promptly notify SCAI of any changes that may create a conflict of interest and SCAI shall maintain a record of all disclosed conflicts of interest and monitor compliance with this policy.
- Editors are strictly prohibited from concurrently holding an employee or CMO role at a company. This prohibition includes full-time, part-time, contract, or any other form of employment or consultancy with an industry-related company.
- Editors are prohibited from simultaneously serving in a similar role for another journal.
Situations in which Editors should be recused:
- A direct-reporting relationship between an author and a reviewer or editor.
- An editor or reviewer is employed at the same institution as an author.
- An editor or reviewer is an author on the manuscript of the submission.
- The submission involves a spouse or dependent child of the reviewer or editor.
- The editor or reviewer is directly compensated a company or competing company with a financial interest in the submission.
- The editor or reviewer believes that he or she cannot be objective, whether for personal reasons or due to a financial interest not otherwise covered in the policy.
- The Editor-in-Chief and at least one editor believes the editorial board member or reviewer cannot be objective either for personal reasons or due to financial interests.
In-house submissions, i.e., papers authored by Editors or Editorial Board members, will be sent to Editors unaffiliated with the author or institution and monitored carefully to ensure there is no peer review bias.