Preliminary evidence of linguistic bias in academic reviewing.

ABSTRACT: Recent years have seen a spirited debate over whether there is linguistic injustice in academic publishing. One way that linguistic injustice might occur is if gatekeepers (e.g., peer reviewers and editors) judge the scholarly quality of academic writing more harshly if the writing does not meet expectations for international academic English, even if the content is good. We tested this with a randomized control study in which scholars judged the scientific quality of several scientific abstracts. Each abstract had two versions with identical scientific content, such that the language in one version conformed to standards for international academic English, and the language in the other version did not (but was still comprehensible). While the data are preliminary and the effects statistic

SUBMITTER: Politzer-Ahles S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7575202 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature