Rezaeian Mohsen
Social Medicine Department, Occupational Environmental Research Center, Rafsanjan Medical School, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran.
Epidemiol Health. 2015 May 1;37:e2015021. doi: 10.4178/epih/e2015021. eCollection 2015.
English has become the most frequently used language for scientific communication in the biomedical field. Therefore, scholars from all over the world try to publish their findings in English. This trend has a number of advantages, along with several disadvantages.
In the current article, the most important disadvantages of publishing biomedical research articles in English for non-native speakers of English are reviewed.
The most important disadvantages of publishing biomedical research articles in English for non-native speakers may include: Overlooking, either unintentionally or even deliberately, the most important local health problems; failure to carry out groundbreaking research due to limited medical research budgets; violating generally accepted codes of publication ethics and committing research misconduct and publications in open-access scam/predatory journals rather than prestigious journals.
The above mentioned disadvantages could eventually result in academic establishments becoming irresponsible or, even worse, corrupt. In order to avoid this, scientists, scientific organizations, academic institutions, and scientific associations all over the world should design and implement a wider range of collaborative and comprehensive plans.
英语已成为生物医学领域科学交流中使用最频繁的语言。因此，世界各地的学者都试图用英语发表他们的研究成果。这一趋势有诸多优点，但也存在一些缺点。
在本文中，我们回顾了非英语母语人士用英语发表生物医学研究文章最重要的缺点。
非英语母语人士用英语发表生物医学研究文章最重要的缺点可能包括：无意甚至有意忽视最重要的当地健康问题；由于医学研究预算有限而未能开展开创性研究；违反普遍接受的出版道德规范，在开放获取骗局/掠夺性期刊而非知名期刊上进行研究不当行为和发表文章。
上述缺点最终可能导致学术机构变得不负责任，甚至更糟的是腐败。为避免这种情况，世界各地的科学家、科学组织、学术机构和科学协会应设计并实施更广泛的合作和全面计划。
