Resources

Evidence syntheses

• Díaz-Reviriego, I., Hanspach, J., Torralba, M., Ortiz-Przychodzka, S., Benavides Frias, C., Burke, L., García-Martín, M., Oteros-Rozas, E. (2024) Appraising biocultural approaches to sustainability in the scientific literature in Spanish. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01969-3
• Spillias, S., Kelly, R., Cottrell, R. S., O’Brien, K. R., Im, R.-Y., Kim, J. Y. et al. (2023). The empirical evidence for the social-ecological impacts of seaweed farming. PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, 2, e0000042. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pstr.0000042
• Anzai, W., Ban, K., Hagiwara, S., Kako, T., Kashiwagi, N., Kawase, K. et al. (2022). Quantifying the 60-year contribution of Japanese zoos and aquariums to peer-reviewed scientific research. Animals, 12, 598. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12050598
• Dresser, C., Hart, A., Kwok-Keung Law, A., Yen Yen Poon, G., Ciottone, G. & Balsari, S. (2022). Where are people dying in disasters, and where is it being studied? A mapping review of scientific articles on tropical cyclone mortality in English and Chinese. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X22000541
• Khanna, S., Ball, J., Alperin, J. P. & Willinsky, J. (2022) Recalibrating the scope of scholarly publishing: A modest step in a vast decolonization process. Quantitative Science Studies, 3, 912-930. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00228
• Tatiana, C., Quentin, S., Mayra, C., Diego, M. & Olivier, D. (2022) Arthropod-related ecosystem services and disservices in smallholder farming in low and middle income countries. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 4, 100133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2022.100133
• Katayama, N., Uchida, H., Kusumoto, Y. & Iida, T. (2022) Bird use of fruit orchards and vineyards in Japan: mitigating a knowledge gap with a systematic review of published and grey literature. Ornithological Science, 21, 93-114. https://doi.org/10.2326/osj.21.93
• Hunter, N. B., North, M. A. & Slotow, R. (2021) The marginalisation of voice in the fight against climate change: The case of Lusophone Africa. Environmental Science & Policy 120, 213-221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.03.012
• Rovira, C., Codina, L. & Lopezosa, C. (2021) Language bias in the Google Scholar ranking algorithm. Future Internet 13, 31. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fi13020031
• Kulczycki, E., Guns, R., Pölönen, J., Engels, T. C. E., Rozkosz, E. A., Zuccala, A. A., Bruun, K., Eskola, O. Starčič, A. I.,Petr, M. & Sivertsen, G. (2020) Multilingual publishing in the social sciences and humanities: A seven-country European study. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 71, 1371–1385. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24336
• El País (2020) El año en que Cajal inventó una vacuna y no se enteró nadie porque lo anunció en español [The year Cajal invented a vaccine and no one found out because he announced it in Spanish]. https://elpais.com/ciencia/2020-05-25/el-ano-en-que-cajal-invento-una-vacuna-y-no-se-entero-nadie-porque-lo-anuncio-en-espanol.html
• Homolak, J., Kodvanj, I. & Virag, D. (2020) Preliminary analysis of COVID-19 academic information patterns: a call for open science in the times of closed borders. Scientometrics 124, 2687–2701. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03587-2
• Fernández-Bellon, D. (2020) Limited accessibility and bias in wildlife-wind energy knowledge: A bilingual systematic review of a globally distributed bird group. Science of The Total Environment 737, 140238. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140238
• Preble, J.H., Ohte, N. & Vincenot, C.E. (2020) In the shadow of the rising sun: a systematic review of Japanese bat research and conservation. Mammal Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12226
• Teo, H.C., Campos-Arceiz, A., Li, B.V., Wu, M. & Lechner, A.M. (2020) Building a green Belt and Road: A systematic review and comparative assessment of the Chinese and English-language literature. PLOS ONE 15, e0239009. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239009
• Vera-Baceta, M.-A., Thelwall, M. & Kousha, K. (2019) Web of Science and Scopus language coverage. Scientometrics 121, 1803-1813. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03264-z
• Petrovan, S.O. & Schmidt, B.R. (2019) Neglected juveniles; a call for integrating all amphibian life stages in assessments of mitigation success (and how to do it). Biological Conservation 236, 252-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.05.023
• Walpole, S. C. (2019) Including papers in languages other than English in systematic reviews: important, feasible, yet often omitted. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 111, 127–134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2019.03.004
• Uetz, P. & Stylianou, A. (2018) The original descriptions of reptiles and their subspecies. Zootaxa 4375, 257-264. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4375.2.5
• Lazarev, V.S. & Nazarovets, S.A. (2018) Don’t dismiss citations to journals not published in English. Nature 556, 174. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04169-2
• Neimann Rasmussen, L. & Montgomery, P. (2018) The prevalence of and factors associated with inclusion of non-English language studies in Campbell systematic reviews: a survey and meta-epidemiological study. Systematic Reviews 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-018-0786-6
• Blicharska, M., Smithers, R. J., Kuchler, M., et al. (2017). Steps to overcome the North–South divide in research relevant to climate change policy and practice. Nature Climate Change, 7, 21-27. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3163
• Baethge, C. (2013) The production and recognition of psychiatric original articles published in languages other than English. BMC Psychiatry, 13, 102. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-13-102
• Morrison, A., Polisena, J., Husereau, D., Moulton, K., Clark, M., Fiander, M., Mierzwinski-Urban, M., Clifford, T., Hutton, B. & Rabb, D. (2012). The effect of English-language restriction on systematic review-based meta-analyses: a systematic review of empirical studies. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 28, 138-144. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266462312000086
• Gordon, A. (2012) The invisibility of science publications in hebrew: A comparative database study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 63, 607-615. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21704
• Song, F., Parekh, S., Hooper, L., Loke, Y. K., Ryder, J., Sutton, A. J., Hing, C., Kwok, C. S., Pang, C., Harvey, I. (2010) Dissemination and publication of research findings: an updated review of related biases. Health Technology Assessment 14, 8. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta14080
• Fung, I.C.H. (2008) Citation of non-English peer review publications – some Chinese examples. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 5, 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-5-12
• Karlsson, S., Srebotnjak, T., & Gonzales, P. (2007) Understanding the North–South knowledge divide and its implications for policy: a quantitative analysis of the generation of scientific knowledge in the environmental sciences. Environmental Science & Policy, 10, 668-684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2007.04.001
• Pan, Z., Trikalinos, T.A., Kavvoura, F.K., Lau, J. & Ioannidis, J.P.A. (2005) Local literature bias in genetic epidemiology: an empirical evaluation of the Chinese literature. PLOS Medicine 2, e334. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020334
• Pham, B., Klassen, T. P., Lawson, M. L., & Moher, D. (2005) Language of publication restrictions in systematic reviews gave different results depending on whether the intervention was conventional or complementary. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 58, 769-776. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2004.08.021
• Cyranoski, D. (2004) Bird flu data languish in Chinese journals. Nature 430, 955. https://doi.org/10.1038/430955a
• Jüni, P., Holenstein, F., Sterne, J., Bartlett, C., & Egger, M. (2002) Direction and impact of language bias in meta-analyses of controlled trials: empirical study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 31, 115–123. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/31.1.115
• Egger, M., Zellweger-Zähner, T., Schneider, M., Junker, C., Lengeler, C., & Antes, G. (1997) Language bias in randomised controlled trials published in English and German. Lancet, 350, 326–329. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(97)02419-7
• Grégoire, G., Derderian, F. & Le Lorier, J. (1995) Selecting the language of the publications included in a meta-analysis: Is there a tower of babel bias? Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 48, 159-163. 1016/0895-4356(94)00098-b

Science communication

• Rakotomanana, H., Razanamaro, O.H.M., Ravelomanana, A., Andriantsaralaza, S., Rafalinirina, A.H., Razanaparany, T.P., Ratsimbazafy, J., Rabakonandrianina, E. & Goodman, S.M. (2024). ATBC 2019 in Madagascar: its impact on the national scientific community. Biotropica, 56, 50–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13277
• Seale, E., Reaume, M., Batista, R., Eddeen, A.B., Roberts, R., Rhodes, E. et al. (2022). Patient–physician language concordance and quality and safety outcomes among frail home care recipients admitted to hospital in Ontario, Canada. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 194, E899-E908. https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.212155
• Büttner, B., Firat, M. & Raiteri, E. (2022). Patents and knowledge diffusion: The impact of machine translation. Research Policy, 51, 104584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2022.104584
• Higham, K. & Nagaoka, S. (2022) Language barriers and the speed of knowledge diffusion. RIETI Discussion Paper Series 22-E-074. https://www.rieti.go.jp/jp/publications/dp/22e074.pdf
• Steigerwald, E., Ramírez-Castañeda, V., Brandt, D.Y.C., Báldi, A., Shapiro, J.T., Bowker, L. et al. (2022). Overcoming language barriers in academia: machine translation tools and a vision for a multilingual future. BioScience. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac062
• Dreisbach, J.L, (2022). The role of languaging in planetary health. The Lancet Planetary Health 6, e385. https://doi.org/10.1016/S254b2-5196(22)00095-X
• Wang, Y. & Mumby, H. (2022). Differences in reporting human-wild boar interactions in Chinese and English news media. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. https://doi.org/10.1080/10871209.2022.2057623
• Pérez-Llantada, C. (2021) Genres and languages in science communication: The multiple dimensions of the science-policy interface. Language & Communication 78, 65-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2021.02.004
• Kim H.N., Lan K.F., Nkyekyer E., Neme, S., Pierre-Louis, M., Chew, L. & Duber, H.C. (2020) Assessment of disparities in COVID-19 testing and infection across language groups in Seattle, Washington. JAMA Netw Open. 3(9): e2021213. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.21213
• Matthews, K. R., Yang, E., Lewis, S. W., Vaidyanathan, B. R., & Gorman, M. (2020) International scientific collaborative activities and barriers to them in eight societies. Accountability in Research, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2020.1774373
• Cheung, H., Mazerolle, L., Possingham, H.P., Tam, K.-P., Biggs, D., 2020. A methodological guide for translating study instruments in cross-cultural research: Adapting the ‘connectedness to nature’ scale into Chinese. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13465
• ÓhÉigeartaigh, S.S., Whittlestone, J., Liu, Y., Zeng, Y. & Liu, Z. (2020) Overcoming barriers to cross-cultural cooperation in governance. Philosophy & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-020-00402-x
• Mori, A.S. (2020) Next-generation meetings must be diverse and inclusive. Nature Climate Change 10, 481. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0795-z
• Márquez, M.C. & Porras, A.M. (2020) Science communication in multiple languages is critical to its effectiveness. Frontiers in Communication 5, 31. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00031
• Barath, H. (2019) Indian initiatives aim to break science’s language barrier. Nature 571, 289-290. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01815-1
• Fabian, Y., Bollmann, K., Brang, P., Heiri, C., Olschewski, R., Rigling, A., Stofer, S., Holderegger, R. (2019) How to close the science-practice gap in nature conservation? Information sources used by practitioners. Biological Conservation 235, 93-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.04.011
• Saha, S., Afrad M.M.H., Saha, S. & Saha, S.K. (2019) Towards making global health research truly global. Lancet Global Health 7, PE1175. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30259-1
• Dew, K.N., Turner, A.M., Choi, Y.K., Bosold, A., Kirchhoff, K. (2018) Development of machine translation technology for assisting health communication: A systematic review. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 85, 56-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2018.07.018
• Giehl, E.L.H., Moretti, M., Walsh, J.C., Batalha, M.A., Cook, C.N. (2017) Scientific Evidence and Potential Barriers in the Management of Brazilian Protected Areas. PLOS ONE 12, e0169917. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169917
• Huttner-Koros, A., Perera, S. (2016) Communicating science in English: a preliminary exploration into the professional self-perceptions of Australian scientists from language backgrounds other than English. Journal of Science Communication 15. https://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.15060203
• Müller, J., Opgenoorth, L. (2014) On the gap between science and conservation implementation – a national park perspective. Basic and Applied Ecology 15, 373-378. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2014.03.002
• Primack, R.B. (2013) Locally adapted textbooks can help biodiversity. BioScience 63, 926-927. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2013.63.12.5
• The PLOS Medicine Editors (2006) Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten: language matters in medicine. PLOS Medicine 3, e122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0030122
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Publishing, education, and career development

• Martin, P.P., Graulich, N. (2024) Beyond language barriers: allowing multiple languages in postsecondary chemistry classes through multilingual machine learning. Journal of Science Education and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-023-10087-4
• Cao, Y., Sickles, RC, Triebs TP & Tumlinson, J. (2024) Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance. Research Policy, 53, 104971. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.104971
• Carlsson, S.V., Esteves, S.C., Grobet-Jeandin, E., Masone, M.C., Ribal, M.J. & Zhu, Y. (2024) Being a non-native English speaker in science and medicine. Nature Review Urology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-023-00839-7
• Liang, W., Yuksekgonul, M., Mao, Y., Wu, E. & Zou, J. (2023) GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers. Patterns, 4, 100779. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2023.100779
• Seghier, M. L. (2023) Using ChatGPT and other AI‐assisted tools to improve manuscripts readability and language. International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, 33, 773-775. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ima.22902
• Deng, J.M. & Flynn, A.B. (2023) “I am working 24/7, but I can’t translate that to you”: the barriers, strategies, and needed supports reported by chemistry trainees from English-as-an-additional language backgrounds. Journal of Chemical Education, 100, 1523–1536. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c01063
• Fox, C.W., Meyer, J. & Aimé, E. (2023) Double-blind peer review affects reviewer ratings and editor decisions at an ecology journal. Functional Ecology, 37, 1144-1157. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14259
• Smith, O.M., Davis, K.L., Pizza, R.B., Waterman, R., Dobson, K.C., Foster, B., et al. (2023) Peer review perpetuates barriers for historically excluded groups. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7, 512-523. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-01999-w
• Carroll, E.L. & Sironi, M. (2023) Enhancing the impact and inclusivity of research by embracing multilingual science communication. Marine Mammal Science, 39, 351-353. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12991
• Anikina, Z. (2021) Don’t focus on English at the expense of your science. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01905-z
• Politzer-Ahles, S., Girolamo T. & Ghali, S. (2020) Preliminary evidence of linguistic bias in academic reviewing. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 47, 100895. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2020.100895
• Ramírez-Castañeda, V. (2020) Disadvantages in preparing and publishing scientific papers caused by the dominance of the English language in science: The case of Colombian researchers in biological sciences. PLOS ONE 15, e0238372. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238372
• Romero-Olivares AL (2019) Reviewers, don’t be rude to nonnative English speakers. Science http://doi.org/10.1126/science.caredit.aaz7179
• Stockemer, D. & Wigginton, M.J. (2019) Publishing in English or another language: an inclusive study of scholar’s language publication preferences in the natural, social and interdisciplinary sciences. Scientometrics 118, 645-652. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2987-0
• Nuñez, M.A., Barlow, J., Cadotte, M., Lucas, K., Newton, E., Pettorelli, N. & Stephens, P.A. (2019) Assessing the uneven global distribution of readership, submissions and publications in applied ecology: Obvious problems without obvious solutions. Journal of Applied Ecology 56, 4-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13319
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• Di Bitetti, M.S., Ferreras, J.A. (2017) Publish (in English) or perish: The effect on citation rate of using languages other than English in scientific publications. Ambio 46, 121–127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-016-0820-7
• Ballabeni, A. (2015) Levelling the lingo playing field. EMBO Reports 16, 769-770. https://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embr.201540724
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