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Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance
Today, scientific knowledge is predominantly disseminated in English. We show that global universities’ research performance, as measured by publications in top journals, declines as the differences between their local language and English increase. This effect is robust to controls for university f...
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| author | Yihui Cao Robin Sickles Thomas Triebs Justin Tumlinson |
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| description | Today, scientific knowledge is predominantly disseminated in English. We show that global universities’ research performance, as measured by publications in top journals, declines as the differences between their local language and English increase. This effect is robust to controls for university factors like proportion of international staff and faculty-to-student ratio, as well as country-level factors like economic development, youth academic achievement, university degree rate, politics, culture, trade with and geographic distance to English speaking countries, among others. This quantification of the research performance penalties induced by linguistic distance from the lingua franca may inform policy makers who must balance trade-offs between embracing English against cultural and local labor market pressures to orient around the local language. |
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| spelling | rr-article-250396912024-02-05T00:00:00Z Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance Yihui Cao (17823959) Robin Sickles (9970061) Thomas Triebs (3928445) Justin Tumlinson (7226177) Commerce, management, tourism and services Marketing Strategy, management and organisational behaviour Applied economics Language Linguistic distance English University research performance <p>Today, scientific knowledge is predominantly disseminated in English. We show that global universities’ research performance, as measured by publications in top journals, declines as the differences between their local language and English increase. This effect is robust to controls for university factors like proportion of international staff and faculty-to-student ratio, as well as country-level factors like economic development, youth academic achievement, university degree rate, politics, culture, trade with and geographic distance to English speaking countries, among others. This quantification of the research performance penalties induced by linguistic distance from the <em>lingua franca</em> may inform policy makers who must balance trade-offs between embracing English against cultural and local labor market pressures to orient around the local language.</p> 2024-02-05T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/25039691.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Linguistic_distance_to_English_impedes_research_performance/25039691 CC BY 4.0 |
| spellingShingle | Commerce, management, tourism and services Marketing Strategy, management and organisational behaviour Applied economics Language Linguistic distance English University research performance Yihui Cao Robin Sickles Thomas Triebs Justin Tumlinson Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance |
| title | Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance |
| title_full | Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance |
| title_fullStr | Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance |
| title_short | Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance |
| title_sort | linguistic distance to english impedes research performance |
| topic | Commerce, management, tourism and services Marketing Strategy, management and organisational behaviour Applied economics Language Linguistic distance English University research performance |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/25039691.v1 |