Science over language: a plea to consider language bias in scientific publishing

[Article in English, Portuguese]

Sebastián González-Dambrauskas^{1

2}, Jorge Ibrain Figueira Salluh^{3

4}, Flávia Ribeiro Machado^{4

5}, Alexandre Tellechea Rotta⁶

Affiliations

¹ Red Colaborativa Pediátrica de Latinoamérica (LARed Network) - Montevideo, Uruguay.
² Departamento de Pediatría y Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos de Niños, Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República - Montevideo, Uruguay.
³ Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino - Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil.
⁴ Brazilian Research in Intensive Care Network (BRICNET) - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
⁵ Intensive Care Department, Hospital São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
⁶ Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center -Durham, North Carolina, United States.

Editorial

[Article in English, Portuguese]

Sebastián González-Dambrauskas et al. Crit Care Sci. 2024.

. 2024 Jul 19:36:e20240084en.

doi: 10.62675/2965-2774.20240084-en. eCollection 2024.

Sebastián González-Dambrauskas^{1

2}, Jorge Ibrain Figueira Salluh^{3

4}, Flávia Ribeiro Machado^{4

5}, Alexandre Tellechea Rotta⁶

¹ Red Colaborativa Pediátrica de Latinoamérica (LARed Network) - Montevideo, Uruguay.
² Departamento de Pediatría y Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos de Niños, Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República - Montevideo, Uruguay.
³ Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino - Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil.
⁴ Brazilian Research in Intensive Care Network (BRICNET) - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
⁵ Intensive Care Department, Hospital São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
⁶ Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center -Durham, North Carolina, United States.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of interest: None.

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