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Peer reviewers and editors are often also non-native speakers. And because they are almost always volunteers, they may not care that much about language, as the
by jltsiren 2y ago
Peer reviewers and editors are often also non-native speakers. And because they are almost always volunteers, they may not care that much about language, as they have better things to do. It's enough that they (as experts in the field) can understand the paper.
Most academic journals also don't have actual editors. Their editors are basically managers who facilitate the review process and make decisions on acceptance. Outside prestige journals such as Nature, authors are usually responsible for the final text.
- Quinzel 2y agoThanks for that insight. I’m going to have to stop assuming that poorly written articles are not worth the read!
- fuzzfactor 2y agoIsn't it more important for academic type authors to have their papers just be published, with higher priority than to be as readable as possible? Plus for it to really be peer review, you would have to have non-native speakers reviewing the papers of non-native authors :) Which is probably more like what's happening.