Bowker, LynneAyeni, PhilipsKulczycki, Emanuel2023-12-202023-12-202023Bowker, Lynne, Ayeni, Philips, and Kulczycki, Emanuel. 2023. Linguistic privilege and marginalization in scholarly communication: Understanding the role of new language technologies for shifting language dynamics. Final report submitted to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.https://doi.org/10.20381/858s-q632http://hdl.handle.net/10393/45758https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-29962English plays the key role in scholarly communication and resource distribution, but using a single language for research has consequences for scholars, science and society. For instance, Non-Anglophone researchers may need longer to read and write in English and may face more manuscript revisions and rejections. This may result in a lower volume of research output, which could negatively affect career advancement. Meanwhile, native English-speaking scholars, who come mainly from Western cultures, will have more visibility and power, and this could influence which subjects are investigated and which communities benefit from the results. Their higher visibility and volume of output may also improve career advancement opportunities for English speakers, such as prestigious appointments as journal editors, where they may reinforce Western viewpoints. To create a more equitable and linguistically diverse scholarly communication ecosystem, support is needed to ensure that scholars can read each other’s work. Language technologies such as machine translation (MT) tools (e.g. Google Translate) or the recent AI tools based on large language models (LLMs) (e.g. ChatGPT) could potentially play a role, but little is understood about whether, how and to what effect these tools are used by scholars. The project team undertook a systematic review of the literature to investigate the current state of language technologies within the scholarly communication ecosystem. Following a multilingual search in key research databases, 875 papers were retrieved and screened, and 40 were retained for closer investigation. Analysis reveals that language technologies are being actively developed, tested, applied and evaluated in the context of scholarly communication.entranslation technologiesscholarly communicationmachine translationlinguistic privilegemultilingualismscholarly publishinglinguistic marginalizationReport10.20381/858s-q632