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September 16, 2022 Last year Eliza Grames had an unusual request for librarians at the University of Connecticut, where she was pursuing a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology. Grames, now a postdoc at the University of Nevada, Reno, wanted to find decades-old Russian-language articles on bird starvation as context for her dissertation research on on songbird population dynamics. What made Grames’ request uncommon is that researchers often ignore research reports published in non-English languages.

“People will just decide that they re only going to search for articles in English,” says Grames. Over the years, English has become the default language of science. Currently, more than 95% of scientific articles are published in English, and these articles receive more attention from other scientists than do non-English papers.