Changing Research Writing Practices in Romania: Perceptions and Attitudes

Addressing the challenge of publishing internationally in a non-Anglophone academic context: Romania – a case in point

“…They definitely reflect an increased awareness of international publication standards, transposed into changing re- search and writing practices. These outcomes are comparable with those obtained through the survey addressed to researchers, as well as with the findings reported by Bardi and Muresan (2014).…”

“…Also, being familiar with the writing standard and requirements of the journal you envisage for publication facilitates the writing process to a great extent. [R10] As to the nature of obstacles still to be overcome, some are associated with the external academic environment (e.g., access to databases) or with the international publishing world (e.g., "parochialism", as mentioned also in Bardi and Muresan, 2014), while others are subjective (e.g., adjusting to co-authors) or related to individual competences, still to be improved.…”

Brazilian researchers’ activity in international publication: a comparative view between Applied Social Sciences and Engineering

“…On the other hand, Politzer-Ahles et al (2016) argue that the challenge is undeniably greater for NNES writers, who have to acquire the additional language before facing the task of learning such specific features. While linguistic injustice is seen as a 'myth' by some authors (Hyland, 2016(Hyland, , 2019Zhao, 2017), several others give evidence to the contrary (Bardi & Muresan, 2014;Belcher, 2007;Bennet, 2017;Flowerdew, 2000;Lillis & Curry, 2010;Politzer-Ahles et al, 2016;Uzuner, 2008) As a consequence of the adoption of Anglo-cultural writing conventions as well as the language, complexity is added to the task of learning how to write RAs in English. Depending on researchers' L1, writing in L2 might mean adopting a completely different style in structuring sentences and paragraphs, as Santos and Silva (2016) found in their c o n t e n t s study of article abstracts in English written by Portuguese speakers.…”

Options in the (Semi-)Periphery: A Review of Multilingual Scholars’ Choices of Topics, Methodologies, and Theories in Research and Publishing

“…In addition/contrast to focusing primarily on local issues, many MSSP are interested in reaching the global community, which often entails publishing in English, because they see publications in top-rank English journals as increasing the readership of their research; also, such publications are often the most rewarded in their institutional context [13]. With concerns about topics derived from their local context being rejected by these English journals, MSSP tend to focus on issues that are likely to appeal to a center-based readership and frame their findings using the language (English), methodologies, and theories originated from and/or widely used in the center [6,9,50]. For instance, the extant research has explored the writing and publishing practices of MSSP in HSS from a range of contries/contexts, includ-ing but not restricted to Spain [3,13,40], Portugal [9,13], Romania [50], Germany [44], the Nordic region [12,43], and Hungary and Slovakia [13,15].…”