292 - The true cost of science’s language barrier for non-native English speakers
Researchers whose first language is not English can spend around twice as long reading an English-language scientific journal article as native speakers. For a PhD student working on their thesis, that can mean spending up to 19 additional working days per year just reading papers. English is the language of science – but precision is tough as a non-native speaker These statistics, published today in PLoS Biology1, might not be shocking, researchers say, but it’s important to measure the ef...