In my field, North American scholarly journals have the highest standards. They’ll torture you over every clumsy turn of phrase or loosely used term. And this is excellent. It is as it should be.
In Spain and Latin America, the main criterion is whether you can make your literary criticism paper sound “scientific.” It’s very boring to me to have to include paragraphs on scientific methodology. I have no idea why a fake similarity between the Humanities and STEM should be at such a premium.
The lowest standards are in Brazil and Eastern Europe. Pretty much the only journals where I have recommended rejecting articles instead of giving a chance to rewrite were from there.
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