Lin MW, Zhang JJ "Language trends in nanoscience and technology: The case of Chinese-language publications " SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3): 555-564 MAR 2007

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail Addresses: minwei.lin at gmail.com 

Title: Language trends in nanoscience and technology: The case of Chinese-
language publications 

Author(s): Lin MW (Lin, Min-Wei), Zhang JJ (Zhang, Jingjing) 

Source: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3): 555-564 MAR 2007 

Document Type: Article 
Language: English 
Cited References: 15      Times Cited: 0        

Abstract: 
Nanoscience and technology (NST) is a young scientific and technological 
field that has generated great worldwide interest in the past two decades. 
Previous bibliometric analyses have unmistakably demonstrated the 
remarkable growth of the global NST literature. While almost all published 
research articles in NST are in English, increasingly a larger share of NST 
publications is published in the Chinese language. Perplexingly, Chinese is 
the only language - apart from English - that displays an ascendant trend 
in the NST literature. In this brief note, we explore and evaluate three 
arguments that could explain this phenomenon: coverage bias, language 
preference, and community formation. 

KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE-CITATION-INDEX; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; SCIENTIFIC 
JOURNALS; DEVELOPING-WORLD; NANOTECHNOLOGY 

Addresses: Lin MW (reprint author), Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Publ Policy, 
Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Publ Policy, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

E-mail Addresses: minwei.lin at gmail.com 

Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS 
Subject Category: Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; 
Information Science & Library Science 

IDS Number: 140MO 

ISSN: 0138-9130