Upon receipt of a manuscript or proposal, reviewers should (cont.):
- Determine that
no conflict of interest, real or perceived,
exists among themselves and the authors. In addition to conflicts based
on individual relations (e.g., professional association between reviewer
and author) and on finances (e.g., reviewer is receiving funding from
the same industrial source or a competitor), potential reviewers need
to determine whether they have an intellectual conflict of interest
(i.e., potential effect of the reviewer’s decision on his/her
own work).
