“…Some argue that the language barrier is even growing, with more and more countries adding publications in their own languages (Mayorcas-Cohen, 1985). For example, increasing amounts of primary scientific material, especially in the applied and technical sciences, are being published in Russian, German, French and Japanese (Wood, 1967;Wellisch, 1973;Michel, 1982;Jagodzinski-Sigogneau, 1982;Bradely, 1993;Regaunt, 1993). Studying scientific publications in geology, Regaunt (1994) claims that languages other than English now dominate some important subfields.…”