The Metaphor Unchained by Roald Hoffmann, American Scientist Sep/Oct 2006

[Loet Leydesdorff]

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent


Valid

English

998635

98.7

98.7

98.7


  German	

4941

.5

.5

99.2


  French	

2368

.2

.2

99.5


  Chinese	

2074

.2

.2

99.7


  Spanish	

1156

.1

.1

99.8


  Japanese	

926

.1

.1

99.9


  Russian	

861

.1

.1

100.0


  Czech	

165

.0

.0

100.0


  Multi-Lang	

83

.0

.0

100.0


  Finnish	

62

.0

.0

100.0


  Portuguese	

24

.0

.0

100.0


  Romanian	

18

.0

.0

100.0


  Latvian	

14

.0

.0

100.0


  Welsh	

12

.0

.0

100.0


  Italian	

10

.0

.0

100.0


  Slovak	

6

.0

.0

100.0


  Afrikaans	

3

.0

.0

100.0


The language distribution of 1,011,363 in the SCI 2005: English is now
98.7%. Dutch	

2

.0

.0

100.0


  Serbian	

1

.0

.0

100.0


  Danish	

1

.0

.0

100.0


  Gaelic	

1

.0

.0

100.0


  Total	

1011363

100.0

100.0

 

 

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Loet Leydesdorff 
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
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> [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Eugene Garfield
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> I heartily recommend this beautiful essay by Nobelist Roald
> Hoffmann of Cornell University.
>
> Gene Garfield
>
>
> Metaphor, Unchained
> Scientists improve their craft by writing about it Roald Hoffmann
>
> Scientists write, first of all for other scientists. It's not
> publish or perish, but rather that an open system of
> communication, a commitment (shading to an addiction) to
> telling others what you have done, is essential to the
> functioning of science.
> The primary medium of communication in the profession is the
> peer-reviewed article. This, our stock in trade, has a ritual
> format with strong historical roots. Once more diverse, the
> language of published articles is now 85 percent English, or
> an approximation thereto. Declining mastery of language
> aside, it's probably okay for most papers to be written in a
> bare style, for the vast majority of more than 500,000
> articles published in chemistry and related fields last year
> is highly specialized (and routine) science. I do wonder
> about the collective effect of so much stylistically
> undistinguished writing. Is more harm done by selling lesser
> science through good style (I'm not talking about hype), or
> by poor writing pulling down sound science?
>
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