For example, as is well known, a coefficient can be statistically significantly different from zero but so close to zero that the statistical significance may be of little relevance. Articles should therefore emphasize the economic importance of variables in the context of confidence intervals rather than statistical significance. It is therefore important that papers be oriented to a broad international audience rather than to just the audience of any specific country. Although U.S.-oriented articles are overwhelmingly the most common form of inappropriately oriented articles, the points that follow apply to articles oriented to the audience of any other specific country or region. At a minimum, correcting this problem requires rewriting the introduction and conclusion.
Authors treat a phenomenon as though a particular country's experience is universal.
Often the assumption is subtle and implicit and might be acceptable for a paper in a national journal, but is not appropriate for an international journal. Articles are culturally biased if they do not recognize that the experience of a particular country is not the world's experience. Authors refer to a phenomenon in a particular country without explicitly noting that it is a country-specific phenomenon or that a particular country's version of the phenomenon might not be the same elsewhere. In all such cases, modifications referring to the particular country are needed. Authors assume that people all over the world have heard of an organization or law in a country and do not explain the law or organization appropriately for an international audience.