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Update. Publishers may choose English because it's a lingua franca for science, intelligible to a larger audience. Or they may do it to increase their #JIF. (And of course the two motives may be related.) Research from Brazil.
scielo.br/scielo.php?scr…
Update. Confirmation that writing outside your native language (unless you are extremely proficient) triggers linguistic bias from native speakers.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
1/ Update. Most email solicitations from predatory journals use weak English. This study confirms my experience.
paperity.org/p/174009175/ma…

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Update (from June, missed at the time).
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Update. "Women submitted proportionally fewer manuscripts [to Elsevier journals] than men during the COVID-19 lockdown months. This deficit was especially pronounced among women in more advanced stages of their career."
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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New #evaluation protocol for academic research published in the Netherlands: #StrategyEvaluationProtocol #SEP 2021-2027 by @deVSNU @NWONews and @_KNAW. Something old, something new. A thread. vsnu.nl/files/document…
The goal of #SEP remains to maintain and improve quality and societal relevance of research. A unit is assessed in light of its own aims and strategy; and aim and strategy depend on institutional context, research field, nature of unit etc. Nothing really new.
A #SEP evaluation doesn’t stand alone; it is a six-yearly event in the ongoing quality assurance cycle. Not really new, but SEP evaluations are far more explicitly positioned as part of a continuous quality assurance process.
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