Multilingual publishing in the social sciences and humanities: A seven-country European study.

ABSTRACT: We investigate the state of multilingualism across the social sciences and humanities (SSH) using a comprehensive data set of research outputs from seven European countries (Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Flanders [Belgium], Norway, Poland, and Slovenia). Although English tends to be the dominant language of science, SSH researchers often produce culturally and societally relevant work in their local languages. We collected and analyzed a set of 164,218 peer-reviewed journal articles (produced by 51,063 researchers from 2013 to 2015) and found that multilingualism is prevalent despite geographical location and field. Among the researchers who published at least three journal articles during this time period, over one-third from the various countries had written their work in at least tw

SUBMITTER: Kulczycki E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7687152 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature