Multilingual Publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities: A Seven-Country European Study
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14810%2F20%3A00115342" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14810/20:00115342 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asi.24336" target="_blank" >https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asi.24336</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.24336" target="_blank" >10.1002/asi.24336</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Multilingual Publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities: A Seven-Country European Study
Original language description
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 two languages. The highest share of researchers who published in only one language were from Flanders (80.9%), whereas the lowest shares were from Slovenia (57.2%) and Poland (59.3%). Our findings show that multilingual publishing is an ongoing practice in many SSH research fields regardless of geographical location, political situation, and/or historical heritage. Here we argue that research is international, but multilingual publishing keeps locally relevant research alive with the added potential for creating impact.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50803 - Information science (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ISSN
2330-1635
e-ISSN
2330-1643
Volume of the periodical
71
Issue of the periodical within the volume
11
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
1371-1385
UT code for WoS article
000508506200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85078655002