The paper aims to determine the degree to which academic writers trust the machine translation systems when translating titles and abstracts for their articles. We conducted the key informant interviews and applied the mathematical statistics methods to process the obtained data. The study focused on the results of the survey, and the research subject was the respondents' perceptions of the machine translation quality when translating specialized texts from Russian into English. The results showed that the absolute majority of Russian researchers use automatic translation systems to produce titles and abstracts in English for their articles. Nevertheless, they are aware of various drawbacks of machine translation in rendering specific linguistic aspects of the source text. Thus, linguistic and translation training among academics is required.
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