What is a conflict of interest?
A financial interest occurs when the authors, recommenders or reviewers:
-Receive (or have received in the past four years) salaries, reimbursements, fees, fellowship, grants, or funding from an entity with financial interests that may be affected by the results of the research presented in the article,
-have shares or stocks in an entity with economic interests that may be affected by the results of the research presented in the article or
-hold patents linked to the research presented in the article
Non-financial conflicts of interests include political, personal, religious, ideological, academic, and intellectual interests of the authors, recommenders or reviewers that may be affected by the results of the research presented in the article.
The Managing Board of PCI Entomology has the right to exclude recommenders from PCI Entomology if they do not respect these rules.