Many of the open access papers that can be viewed for free via the Internet use English even in non-English speaking countries, and most of the papers in the top 10% of citations are written in English, according to the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy. I found it in an international survey.
The survey was conducted by constructing, aggregating, and analyzing a unique database at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy based on the February 2015 extracted data of Elsevier, an international publisher based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.The publication year of the target paper is from 2 to 2004, and the target countries are Japan, China, South Korea, the United States, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.
According to the report, the majority of papers published from domestic journals in both the United States and the United Kingdom in English-speaking countries were published from journals in other countries in five non-English-speaking countries.In Japan, 5% are published from domestic journals, 30% of which are published in open access journals.
When it comes to papers in the top 10% of citations, the majority of papers were published by journals in other countries in all six countries other than the United States.
The language used for the dissertation was almost 100% English when published from journals in other countries.Most of the papers published in their own journals were in their own language in France and China, and English was the majority in South Korea.Japan and Germany have almost XNUMX% of their own language and XNUMX% of English.
Especially when the publication destination was open access journals, the English usage rate was increasing in most countries.
In the papers in the top 10% of citations, more than 3% of the three non-English speaking countries such as Japan were English, except that their own languages were conspicuous in France and China.In Japan, open access journals are 95% English.
