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fewer papers are published in English by researchers whose mother tongue isn’t English, compared with the output of native speakers. This discrepancy has been revealed in an analysis published in the journal Plos Biology. Its authors advise against using a researcher’s output of English-language articles as a measure of research productivity. This is because when non-English papers are included in the count, the differences in output disappear almost completely.

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