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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2002

Hikomaro Sano
Hikomaro Sano
Affiliation:
Nagoya Bunri University, Inazawa City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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Abstract

A survey of English as the universalizing language of chemistry.

In recent decades the use of English has extended greatly in various fields, including both science and engineering, where it is now more widely used than in any other scientific fields. However, only a few papers have been published (cf. Sano, 1986) to demonstrate the trend in a quantitative manner. In order to discuss this trend here, a bibliometric approach has been adopted in order to retrieve the relevant information from a large scientific database.

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English Today , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , October 2002 , pp. 45 - 49
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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