A conflict of interest exists when financial, personal, academic, or institutional relationships could influence, or appear to influence, a person's judgment about a manuscript. JIEET requires authors, reviewers, and editors to disclose all potential conflicts.

Authors

• Every manuscript must include a Conflict of Interest statement before the References, even if there is none ("The authors declare no conflict of interest.").
• Authors must disclose funding sources, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, patents, and personal relationships relevant to the work, and state the role of the funder in the study.
• Authors may name individuals they prefer not to review their manuscript, with reasons.

Reviewers

• Reviewers must decline an invitation if they have a conflict of interest, such as collaborating with, supervising, or being at the same institution as any author within the last three years, or having a competing financial or professional interest.
• Reviewers must not use unpublished information from a manuscript for their own advantage.

Editors

• Editors must not handle manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest; such manuscripts are assigned to another editor.
• Manuscripts submitted by the Editor-in-Chief, editorial board members, or JIEET staff are handled entirely by an independent editor, undergo the same double-blind review, and the submitting editor is excluded from all decisions on them.
• Editorial decisions are based only on the manuscript's quality, originality, and relevance, never on the authors' nationality, institution, gender, religion, or affiliation with the publisher.

Undisclosed conflicts discovered later will be handled under the Allegation of Research Misconduct and Correction and Retraction policies.