http://www.miquelon.org/2008/02/28/did-the-us-boycott-of-french-products-spread-to-include-scientific-output/ Monitoring Anti-French Activity Since 2003 Wed, 1 Feb 2012 01:12:09 -0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.miquelon.org/2008/02/28/did-the-us-boycott-of-french-products-spread-to-include-scientific-output/comment-page-1/#comment-80 fx Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:41:53 +0000 http://www.miquelon.org/2008/02/28/did-the-us-boycott-of-french-products-spread-to-include-scientific-output/#comment-80 Working in another field of academic research, I must say that I did not notice such a bias. It may have been there at the margin, but I suspect it was more than compensated for by the extra recruiting opportunities that ambitious French institutions had as a result of the U.S. becoming less hospitable and attractive to non-American researchers after 9/11. In the long term, any bias by American journals will only contribute to the decline of these journals as well as the U.S. as a relative research power. Working in another field of academic research, I must say that I did not notice such a bias. It may have been there at the margin, but I suspect it was more than compensated for by the extra recruiting opportunities that ambitious French institutions had as a result of the U.S. becoming less hospitable and attractive to non-American researchers after 9/11. In the long term, any bias by American journals will only contribute to the decline of these journals as well as the U.S. as a relative research power.

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