At the end of the 20th century, English firmly established its widely recognized role of a dominant language of research communication. Not surprisingly, it was metaphorically compared to “a powerful carnivore gobbling up the other denizens of the academic linguistic grazing grounds.” The preponderance of English has essentially changed the linguistic landscape of research reporting, which has been increasingly becoming more and more Anglophone: for example, journals in many countries switch to all-English policies, like medical journals in Sweden, where the only remaining Swedish-language one is or .
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