Communicating science in international English: scholarly journals, publication praxis, language domain loss and benefits

Cianflone, Eugenio

doi:10.5209/rev_clac.2014.v57.44514

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“…An English-only policy promotes the worldwide spread of knowledge, rewards authors and institutions through research evaluation, and increases journals' chances of international readership, visibility, citations, funding, and indexation (Cianflone, 2014;Di Bitetti & Ferreras, 2016;Li, 2018;Moed et al, 2020;Pulišelić & Petrak, 2006;Salager-Meyer, 2008). The cost of this policy is that it abandons journals' cultural identities and local ways of knowledge construction, and reinforces the homogenizing process of globalization (Ferguson, 2013;Mur-Dueñas, 2013;Van Parijs, 2004).…”

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“…The new language policies include a switch to using English as the only publishing language, publishing articles in either English or local languages depending on authors' preference, or publishing articles in both English and local languages (bilingual publishing) (Kim & Chesnut, 2016;Ordorika, 2018). An English-only policy has side-effects (Ferguson, 2013;Mur-Dueñas, 2013;Van Parijs, 2004), although it rewards authors and journals (Cianflone, 2014;Li, 2018;Pulišelić & Petrak, 2006). Giving authors the freedom to choose between English and local languages is not effective as a way of changing the status of local languages in academic publishing because the majority of authors choose to submit articles in English out of pragmatic concerns, such as more international readers and greater chances of citation and promotion (Bocanegra-Valle, 2014;Fuentes & Gómez Soler, 2017).…”

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Translation-mediated bilingual publishing as a development strategy

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Local-language journals that include topics of regional interest and are published by regional institutions in the non-Anglophone world (peripheral journals, also called Global South journals in Development Studies) are underrepresented in major indexes and are struggling due to a lack of contributors, reviewers and financial support. Some have resorted to translation-mediated bilingual publishing as a development strategy to maintain their identity and increase their visibility and impact. To date, this strategy has received scant attention in the literature. The current research aims to explore why peripheral journals resort to the strategy and the ways in which it is put into practice. The overviews, instructions to authors and bilingually presented articles of 68 social science and humanities journals were reviewed through content analysis. The results suggest that the journals implement the strategy out of pragmatic and ideological concerns. It seems that the current use of translation as a development strategy is still an improvized mechanism instead of a standard model. Although many follow a similar pattern in some respects, there is a lack of management in the translation process and no agreed norms on cost coverage, translation strategy and presentation formats. This points to the necessity of further effort being expended to optimize the strategy in the future.

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Translation-mediated bilingual publishing as a development strategy

2022

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“…Different languages, from Sumerian to Greek, Arabic, Latin, and recently French, German and English, have served as the main lingua franca of scholarly communication throughout the ages (Hamel 2007). English has, however, become the de facto language of international science in recent decades (Research Trends 2008;Cianflone 2014). Van Weijen (2012) estimates that around 80% of all journals indexed in Scopus were in English.…”

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Charting the Open Access scholarly journals landscape in the UAE

Boufarss

2020

Scientometrics

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The purpose of this study is to chart the scholarly journal landscape in the UAE in order to provide a scientific perspective on research productivity, distribution, and access in the country and lay the foundations for further research in this area. The study aims also to contribute to research endeavoring to paint a global picture of scholarly publishing. We carried out a mapping of scholarly journals published in the UAE compiled from international and local sources. The resulting journal list was studied focusing on the share of OA titles, language of publication, discipline, and type of publisher. Our results show that: (1) 534 journals are published in the UAE and that the share of OA is quite noteworthy with about 64% of all online journals; (2) the APC-based OA model is prevalent with around 75% of OA journals levying a publication fee; (3) UAE journals are predominantly in English while the number of Arabic-language journals is marginal; (4) science, technology and medicine prevail as the most prevalent subject areas of the journals; and (5) commercial publishers control most of the publications especially in the medical field. The study lays a foundation for further studies on scholarly journals in the UAE. The combination of regional indexes and international directories to measure the country's scholarly journal output can also be replicated and built upon for other countries where the major international bibliometric databases do not provide a comprehensive representation of scholarly publishing activities.

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“…In order to publish their works internationally, it is a well-understood convention among authors that their works must be written in an internationally preferred language, in this case, English. Due to English being the lingua franca in academic writing, particularly for international publications purposes, research articles published in non-English journals are likely to receive fewer citations and are often undervalued or ignored (Cianflone, 2014;Liang, Rosseau, & Zhong, 2012;Li, 2020). Moreover, publications in English may result in a faster circulation of knowledge, a higher chance of funding, and career promotion (Cianflone, 2014).…”

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“…Due to English being the lingua franca in academic writing, particularly for international publications purposes, research articles published in non-English journals are likely to receive fewer citations and are often undervalued or ignored (Cianflone, 2014;Liang, Rosseau, & Zhong, 2012;Li, 2020). Moreover, publications in English may result in a faster circulation of knowledge, a higher chance of funding, and career promotion (Cianflone, 2014). As the demands for international publications arise, the standards would be strictly monitored to ensure the overall quality of the published research articles.…”

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Rhetorical Moves Analysis on Scopus-Indexed Research Article Abstracts by National and International Authors

Nurcik

Kurniawan

Lubis

2022

ERJEE

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Abstracts in research articles are important for readers in determining whether to continue reading the article or not. A plethora of studies involving abstracts’ rhetorical moves has previously been published, but scant attention has been given to the relationship between the rhetorical moves and authors’ nationalities. This study is aimed at comparing the rhetorical moves and linguistic realizations of abstracts by authors of different nationalities. This study analyzed 30 hard sciences abstracts written by national and international authors published in the International Journal of Science and Technology (IJoST). Hyland’s (2000) model of rhetorical moves was employed as the framework of analysis. Findings showed that both groups similarly spent more space in manifesting the method and findings moves. However significant differences were evident in the steps of the introduction and method moves. National authors considered the conclusion move as optional, whereas the other moves in both groups were considered conventional. International authors considered topic generalization step as conventional, while all other steps in the introduction move of both groups were optional. No difference was found in the voices used. However, tense-wise, the international authors favored present tenses in describing the research purpose while the national authors favored past tenses. This study concludes that the differences in the rhetorical organizations between the international and national authors can mostly be found in the steps, instead of the moves. Additionally, as the use of voice does not show any difference, the use of different tenses in each move distinguishes the two groups of authors.

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Communicating science in international English: scholarly journals, publication praxis, language domain loss and benefits

Cited by 5 publications

References 30 publications

Translation-mediated bilingual publishing as a development strategy

Translation-mediated bilingual publishing as a development strategy

Charting the Open Access scholarly journals landscape in the UAE

Rhetorical Moves Analysis on Scopus-Indexed Research Article Abstracts by National and International Authors

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