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The Growing Divide in Scientific Attention: A Tale of Two Scientists

Imagine a bustling city where a few towering skyscrapers dominate the skyline, while the surrounding neighborhoods—though full of life and potential—remain in the shadows, overlooked. This metaphor captures a troubling trend in modern science: a small group of prominent researchers increasingly dominate scholarly attention, while the majority of scientists—early-career scholars, specialists in niche fields, or those from underrepresented regions—struggle to be heard. A recent study, analyzing millions of academic publications and citations, reveals how this “attention inequality” is reshaping the scientific landscape, with profound implications for innovation, diversity, and the future of knowledge itself.

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Multilingual Scholarly Communication and Translation Technologies

While a multilingual scholarly communication ecosystem would help to mitigate many of the inequities created by the single-language model that currently prevails, multilingualism nonetheless presents its own challenges. If researchers all publish in their own language, how will they be able to discover and access each other’s work? Can new AI-based translation technologies help?

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