Re:How English beat German as the language of science
by notvplez on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @08:24AM
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No, he just used the two recent Norwegian Nobel-winners as an example of scientist publishing in English instead of their native language (or any other).
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Re:How English beat German as the language of science
by niklasni1 on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @02:22PM
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Right.
I'm Danish which means my first language is spoken by ~6m people (slightly more than Norwegian).
There are quite simply no Danish language scholarly journals in the field I trained in, and even in the fields where there are, they are by definition much, much smaller and publishing internationally is perceived as substantially more prestigious.