European Science Editing 50: e132317, doi: 10.3897/ese.2024.e132317
Enhancing the accessibility of science at The Lancet with native language abstracts
Christopher H. Wortley‡‡ The Lancet, London, United Kingdom
Corresponding author: Christopher H. Wortley ( chris.wortley@lancet.com ) Academic editor: Tom Lang © Christopher H. Wortley. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Wortley CH (2024) Enhancing the accessibility of science at The Lancet with native language abstracts. European Science Editing 50: e132317. https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2024.e132317 |  |
Abstract
Today, 98% of peer-reviewed scientific publishing is in English, which is also the official language of most scientific events and international academic journals. UNESCO, through its Recommendation on Open Science, has called on scientific institutions to foster multilingualism in the practice of science, in scientific publications, and in academic communications. At The Lancet, we recognize the need to provide more equitable and inclusive access to scientific knowledge by providing abstracts translated into relevant languages. Following a pilot, a workflow for abstract translation was devised. I present here details of our abstract translation procedure and rollout.
Keywords
abstract translations, multilingualism, scientific abstracts