Managing Conflicts of Interest
Declare and view conflicts of interest to ensure fair review assignments
Your conflict of interest (COI) list ensures you won't be assigned to review papers from collaborators, advisors, or co-authors.
Go to Settings in the sidebar, then click Conflicts.
How Conflicts Work
PaperFox detects conflicts in two ways:
| Type | How It Works | Can Delete? |
|---|---|---|
| Self-Disclosed | You manually declare people whose papers you should not review | Yes |
| System-Detected | Automatically found from your PaperFox co-authorships (last 3 years) | No |
Both types prevent you from being assigned to review that person's papers.
Self-Disclosed Conflicts
Click "Add Conflict" to declare someone whose papers you should not review — for example, your PhD advisor, a close collaborator, or a co-author from outside PaperFox.
Type a name to search existing PaperFox users. Selecting a user auto-fills their email and affiliation. You can also enter details manually for people not on PaperFox.
System-Detected Conflicts
PaperFox automatically identifies your co-authors from paper submissions on the platform. These appear under System-Detected Conflicts and update whenever a paper listing you as co-author is submitted.
System-detected conflicts show the co-author's name, email, and affiliation. Click Collaboration History to see which papers you co-authored together.
3-year window
Only co-authorships from the last 3 years are shown. Older collaborations are not considered active conflicts.
For Track Chairs
When using Auto Assign Reviewers, conflicts are automatically enforced — reviewers with conflicts are never assigned to those papers. Both self-disclosed and system-detected conflicts are checked.