JPRAS reviewers are asked to declare any conflict of interest with the author group when being invited to review a submission, and required to decline to review if a conflict of interests is present. Conflicts of interest include any cause to bias their opinion on an article, shared institutional affiliations or research projects, and undeclared social or financial ties, or significant professional dependence upon an author.
JPRAS reviewers are obligated to treat submissions as confidential, and must not declare, disseminate, or otherwise use submitted content to their professional advantage prior to publication online.
