Only one in ten doctoral theses at public universities is written in Catalan

Catalan occupies a minority position as the language of doctoral theses in public universities. According to the latest data, from the 2022-23 academic year, one in ten is written in Catalan. More than half of the 2,358 doctoral theses were written in a foreign language, more than a third in Spanish, and 11% in Catalan. Among researchers in Catalonia, Catalan is more widely used, but not the majority: one in five works. The academic journals whe…