In September 2020 I started what became a long #Twitter thread on #MultilingualResearch.https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1307774697531113474

Update. "Communicating all research in one single language means that language shapes the research too. Language shapes what is possible to express, contextualize, or reveal…Privileging the English language in scholarly communication marginalizes and disadvantages researchers who are not first-language English speakers, or not English-language speakers at all."
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/id/6258/

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

Update. "Multilingual publishing has been an ongoing and documented practice in SSH for many years, with numerous studies demonstrating the benefits of publishing research in multiple languages. However, there has been relatively little research into the extent to which multilingual publishing is practised in STEM. This chapter aims to address this gap in the literature and demonstrate that multilingual publishing is also visible in STEM fields."
https://books.google.com/books?id=1eFBEQAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA151&hl=en&source=newbks_fb#v=onepage&q&f=false

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

Update. "Under the pressure of English as the lingua franca for research publication, local journals have changed their language policies for survival. While some discontinued their local-language editions and became English journals, others resorted to bilingual publishing through translation…[The] shift to bilingual publishing [by journals based in #Spain] increases the proportion of international contributions and widens the geographical distribution of contributing countries."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1665

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

Update. A profile of Japanese biologist Tatsuya Amano and his work to foster #MultilingualResearch and spotlight discrimination against non-fluent speakers of English.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00157-5
(#paywalled)

#Multilingualism

Update. See the Linguistic Society of America (#LSA) Statement Against Designating English as the Official Language.
https://www.lsadc.org/content.asp?admin=Y&contentid=468

"The United States has always been a multilingual country, and this gives it strength…Citizens of the US and of all democracies inevitably have different linguistic ways of navigating their lives, and enforced monolingualism never achieves national unity…'Official English' policies do not improve economic prospects for those who arrive in the US speaking another language, nor do they improve communication for those who live in multilingual communities…Supporting and promoting multilingualism makes a nation stronger, not weaker."

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "For the 1990-2023 period, we find that only Indonesian, Portuguese and Spanish have expanded at a faster pace than English. Country-level analyses show that this trend is due to the growing strength of the Latin American and Indonesian academic circuits. Our results also confirm…that social sciences and humanities are the least English-dominated fields. Our findings suggest that policies recognizing the value of both national-language and English-language publications have had a concrete impact on the distribution of languages in the global field of scholarly communication."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21100

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch #ScholComm

Update. "A scholarly communication ecosystem with one dominant language presents numerous inequities. Implementing multilingualism is complex and there is no single strategy to achieve it. Rather, multilingualism can take different forms, and small steps taken by different actors can add up to increase linguistic diversity. This commentary unpacks some of the complexities involved in multilingual scholarly communication and offers some concrete recommendations for moving forward."
https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/cjils/article/view/22292

#DEI #Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch #ScholComm

Update. "Multilingualism in science…expands the participation and dialogue among diverse communities of scientists and influences stakeholders who use science to address urgent global issues. [But] systematic and sustained implementation of multilingual scholarly communication and peer-reviewed publishing is cumbersome for journal management platforms, research teams, and editorial boards…This Research Note…proposes the first statement of the _Journal of Disaster Studies_ (JDS) on inclusive multilingualism."
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/971123

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch #ScholComm

Update. New from #COAR (@coar_repositories "This paper explores the concept of #semantic #multilingual #search: an emerging approach that retrieves information by meaning rather than by exact wording, enabling users to search in any supported language and discover relevant work across all languages…When you ask a question in your language, the entire world should have a chance to understand and respond."

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch #ScholComm

Update. It's rare to see a journal editorial call for #MultilingualResearch. Here's one from _Applied and Environmental Microbiology_, published by the American Society of Microbiology.
https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02229-25

Language barriers "do more than prevent access to opportunities. They cement unfair assumptions about scientific competence and preferentially amplify voices that are proficient, or perceived to be proficient, in the dominant language, shaping scientific discourse in narrow and exclusive ways. This editorial explores how linguistic bias sustains professional hierarchies and restricts scientific progress. It also highlights our journal’s initiatives to overcome language-based barriers in publishing and foster equitable participation in scientific exchange."

#DEI #Multilingualism #ScholComm

Update. "For the 1990–2023 period, we find that only Indonesian, Portuguese, and Spanish have expanded at a faster pace than English [in academic publishing]… Social sciences and humanities are the least English-dominated fields… Policies recognizing the value of both national-language and English-language publications have had a concrete impact on the distribution of languages in the global field of scholarly communication."
https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.70055

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch #ScholComm