Dear colleagues, I have a question!
The most prestigious and cited articles are those which indexed in the Scopus or Web of Science, do you agree? These works are usually in English and good English. Editors of magazines offer their translation services, of course, not for free. Well, or you need to do a lot of efforts to improve your English. Hence, the question is whether the scientist will spend more time studying English or developing science?
And the payment of the publication itself is not cheap. It turns out, this is a profitable business because scientists wish to be known and are ready to pay. The next aspect. How do you think, the English-speaking scientists are more educated and creative than those who work and invent, for example, in India or China? And is it possible to compare the financial capabilities of an Indian and Canadian scientist to get into a prestigious scientific journal? The Indian scientist needs to pay half the salary for publication in the rating magazine, and the Canadian will give only 5 percent.
Two questions: price and language. It seems that science can only develop in high-income countries. Secondly, science is most open to English-speaking scientists.
But such scientists are about 10 percent of all scientists. Doesn't this circumstance inhibit the development of science? Isn't this a division of scientists into the first, second grade, etc?
Hi,
There are excellent scientists in many countries. The thing is that science has to advance, and advancement of science depends , to a large extent ,on its visibility. Visibility of science is created by a language that is common to most scientists in the world. In the 19th century Latin was the "lingua franca" of science, in the beginning of the 20th century it was German, and since the mid-20th century the English took over. It is important to have a common language in science to avoid research duplication, and lessen overlaps of scientific results. Besides, in the time of growing scientific collaboration, a common language in a an international research team, is most important.
Dear Mrs. Gordon,
the Internet and the technology of translation, the synthesis of speech are developing more and more. Probably, soon the time will come when the same Google translator will allow scientists to advance the science, less distracted by the second order disciplines, will not it?
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