Creating an Internationally Equitable Playing Field for Publishing in English-Language Scholarly Journals

The present article argues for addressing the disadvantage posed by writing and publishing in English for scholarly journals in the Anglophone world for non-Anglophone authors. Such barriers include the status of English as the lingua franca for academic publishing and journal policies that disadvantage Global South authors. Recommendations are advanced for overcoming these barriers, including using artificial intelligence to facilitate translation, publishing articles in multiple languages, providing language support for authors, encouraging citations to Global South authors and journals, and encouraging collaborations between Global North and Global South authors.