EDITORIAL | REDAKTORIAUS ŽODIS

Abstract

The 17th issue of Sustainable Multilingualism turns a new page in its publication history. Undoubtedly, the honourable inclusion in the SCOPUS database is a credit to everyone who has contributed to its creation: authors of articles, editors, editorial staff, proofreaders. Definitely, we all give our sincere thanks to the publisher. We want to celebrate this achievement – it is understandable (and fitting!) – but in moderation and without pride. New status burdens us with greater responsibility.

Often a tendency is observed, especially in the academic world of empirical sciences, to move away from practice, from the society to which science must serve as well as from specific benefits. There is a growing appeal to a narrow, inner circle of specialists, while researchers are ever more frequently writing (if not repeatedly) to each other about the limited scope of research. Predominantly, these are case studies that can be both interesting as well as consistently and measuredly prepared but often remain in a peculiar scientific niche. I have come across open criticism on the internet that today quite numerous researchers are wasting their scientific potential in search of answers to questions that no one has raised.