I'd like to have my question ZbMATH and conflict of interest reopened. It needs a vote or two more.
The claimed duplicate is Under what circumstances is there a conflict of interest for a researcher to be a reviewer of a submitted academic paper?.
Reasons:
- zbMATH is a collection of post-publication reviews of articles, not a peer reviewed journal. As such, the standards for having a conflict of interest might be different.
- zbMATH reviews are not anonymous. Peer reviews usually are. This might also influence what is and is not a conflict of interest.