* Journals could provide more editing support, possibly with AI translation tools.
* Journals could allow multilingual submissions.
That doesn't really fix anything. If you submit in an unpopular language you're willingly limiting the reach your paper is going to get. That's not a problem just for the researcher, but also for the community at large.
Just learn English, or if you're in China, Mandarin.
If you provide a clever solution for climate change on it, every-f*ng-body. Abstracts were created exactly for this.
And if your intended audience is mostly composed of Nahuatl speakers or your theme is about this group, you should positively consider to write it on this language. Not all science papers are mean to interest everybody in the planet. There are lots and lots of specialized niches.
In fact is so dumb that research is the only part of literature where the author is required to write also the translated edition.
Just imagine how much damage that would do to the literature if we would apply that rule to every piece of poetry or every written novel, and how many interesting authors and books we would lose. Do you imagine how much JK Rowling would struggle writing Harry Potter in Spanish, and how much extra time and effort would need to put on it? This is exactly the same (except that you give your novel for free instead to became rich).
The anglosphere, not the world. I assure you there are many parts of the world not set up for people like you. I live in one of them. We don't feel guilty about building our corner of the world for our own benefit. But we also don't see our home country as a mere economic platform open for everyone.
> The anglosphere, not the world. I assure you there are many parts of the world not set up for people like you.
My phrasing was sloppy. I meant the scientific world in which I operate, not the entire scientific world, and certainly not the literal entire globe.
> I live in one of them. We don't feel guilty about building our corner of the world for our own benefit. But we also don't see our home country as a mere economic platform open for everyone.
I'm not sure if that's a general statement of fact or a response to something I said, but, if I appeared to imply that you should feel guilty or that your home country should be a mere economic platform, then I did not mean to do so, and I apologize.
That we have to do the bare minimum and learn English to access the anglosphere (or global scientific publishing, where if it wasn't English then it would be French or Latin or some other common language, and the issues would be the same) is not something you should spend an ounce of guilt, or even limited awareness, on.
And it is downright perverse that the fantastic scientific accomplishments, that drew the global scientific community to learn English to access them, get re-cast as "the world built for you", as some kind of unearned privilege.