Linguistic Diversity Index: A Scientometric Measure to Enhance the Relevance of Small and Minority Group Languages
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F44994575%3A_____%2F21%3AN0000102" target="_blank" >RIV/44994575:_____/21:N0000102 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211009191" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211009191</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440211009191" target="_blank" >10.1177/21582440211009191</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Linguistic Diversity Index: A Scientometric Measure to Enhance the Relevance of Small and Minority Group Languages
Original language description
Current scientometric indexes do not encourage the linguistic diversity of sources cited in academic texts and researchers are not motivated to cite texts written in smaller languages. This diminishes the cultural diversity of the sources cited and limits the representation of small and indigenous cultures. This text proposes a scientometric measure designed to encourage the linguistic diversity of sources cited in articles, books, and papers. The Linguistic Diversity Index is based on two stipulations: (a) the more linguistically diverse the sources, the higher the score, and (b) the rarer the languages cited, the higher the score. If such a metric were used for the evaluation of social science and humanities journals, it would encourage the publication of papers that cite ideas from rarely represented cultural groups such as indigenous nations, ethnic groups from small countries, and other linguistic groups that have been omitted from mainstream scientific discourse. This might help to produce new research, which would help to improve the situation for these groups and create an epistemology that is more just to small cultural groups.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
SAGE Open
ISSN
2158-2440
e-ISSN
2158-2440
Volume of the periodical
11
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
nestrankovano
UT code for WoS article
000641699500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85104442423