Assess your conflicts of interest
- Are you close friends with the authors?
- Are you from the same institution?
- Do you directly compete with the authors?
- Have you collaborated with the authors in the last 5 years?
- Understand your biases
- Ethnic and Gender Biases – the assumption that certain genders or
ethnic backgrounds produce inferior research.
- Geographic bias – the assumption that research that comes from
certain countries is of higher or lower quality.
- Prestige bias – the assumption that research from known
universities is better than research from institutions that are not
well recognized.
- Model Bias – The assumption that certain models are better than
others for studying or understanding natural phenomena.
- Positive Bias – The assumption that research with a positive result
better in quality than negative results which are scrutinized more
carefully.