This text is MAYERA Medical Journal's, word for word as on mayeramj.com. MMJ is currently MAYERA Ink's only journal.
Authors, reviewers, editors, mentors, and journal staff must disclose relationships or interests that could reasonably be perceived to influence their work or judgement. Conflicts may be financial, professional, institutional, personal, academic, or otherwise relevant.
Authors
Authors must disclose relevant financial and non-financial interests, funding, sponsor involvement, and relationships relevant to the submitted work.
Reviewers and editors
Reviewers and editors must disclose conflicts promptly. A conflicted person should not handle or review the manuscript; an independent replacement should be assigned. Editors must not use confidential manuscript information for personal advantage.
Mentors and journal personnel
A mentor must not handle or review a manuscript where they are an author or otherwise conflicted. Mentorship does not itself confer authorship. If the mentor genuinely qualifies as an author, authorship is assessed by contribution criteria, while editorial handling is assigned independently.
Publisher and editorial independence
The publisher’s financial or ownership role must not determine individual editorial outcomes. Payment or waiver status must not influence scientific assessment. Manuscripts submitted by the Founder/Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, editors, editorial board members, mentors, or journal staff must be assigned to an appropriately qualified, conflict-free editor. The submitting individual must not influence the editorial decision. Where necessary, access to confidential reviewer identities, reports, and editorial discussions must be restricted to protect the independence of the process.
Declaring and recording conflicts
Relevant conflicts must be disclosed at submission or as soon as they become known. The journal will record disclosures and document recusals and reassignment decisions. A conflict does not automatically invalidate research; the journal will assess the nature of the conflict and apply appropriate safeguards.
Unresolved conflicts may be referred to the Editor-in-Chief or an independent authorised editor, with recusal where necessary.
Where a conflict involves the Editor-in-Chief, the matter must be referred to a designated, independent, conflict-free editor under the journal’s governance policy. The person whose conduct or interests are under consideration must not decide the matter. Relevant concerns may be submitted through the journal’s designated ethics or complaints contact (ethics@mayeramj.com or appeals@mayeramj.com).