This policy seeks to ensure editorial freedom, as well as the trust of readers in the review process and the credibility of the articles published in the "Revista del Centro de Investigación de la Universidad La Salle". A conflict of interest arises when relationships, personal or financial, between authors (or the institution to which they belong), reviewers or editors, can influence negatively causing a bias in their actions.

Authors, editors and reviewers are responsible for declaring all relationships that involve a bias in the peer review process, considering a time window of 5 years. In the case of the authors, this information must be included in the submission under the name "Notification of conflicts of interest". The Editorial Board will be in charge of attending the observations of the reviewers or editors about possible conflicts of interest of the authors. In the case of an undeclared conflict of interest being verified, the "Declaration of conflicts of interest" of the manuscript will be amended. The "Declaration of conflicts of interest" will be included in the initial pages of the article published for the readers' knowledge. In case it is revealed that a published article has undeclared conflicts of interest, the authors will be contacted and a correction of the "Declaration of conflicts of interest" of the article will be published.

The reviewers must reveal any conflict of interest that may affect the revision of the manuscripts. In the case that a reviewer declares that she/he has a conflict of interest, he will be excluded from the revision process of the manuscript. The editors will select another reviewer to perform the revision of the manuscript. If it is revealed that an arbitrator has a conflict of interest that has not been declared to the editors of the journal, it will be excluded from the revision process of the manuscript and will be vetoed for any future revision.

Some examples of conflicts of interest related to the authors are:

1. The authors served or are currently member of the editorial committee of the journal to which they are submitting.
2. The authors are part of a committee of an institution or organization that will be benefited from the publication of the article.

Some examples of conflicts of interest related to the editors and reviewers are:

1. The editors or reviewers work or worked in the same institution as the author.
2. The editors or reviewers collaborate or collaborated with the author.
3. The editors or reviewers published with the author in the last 5 years.
4. The editors or reviewers in collaboration with the author have received some funding.
5. The editors or reviewers have a personal relationship with the author that does not allow them to evaluate the manuscript objectively.