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The true cost of science’s language barrier for non-native English speakers

Survey quantifies the extra time that researchers whose first language isn’t English need to read, write and present data.
  1. Mariana Lenharo
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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.

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Nature 619, 678-679 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02320-2

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  1. Amano, T. et al. PLoS Biol. 21, e3002184 (2023).

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