https://jeltsch.org/en/tags/lingua-franca/Recent content in Lingua Franca on Michael’s DomainHugoen-usCopyright © 2002 - 2026 Michael Jeltsch.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:18:18 +0300https://jeltsch.org/en/writing_scientific_articles_in_german_a_waste_of_time/Wed, 08 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://jeltsch.org/en/writing_scientific_articles_in_german_a_waste_of_time/<p>It appears strange to us, but one hundred years ago the lingua franca of science was German. Although my former boss Kari Alitalo had warned me, I wrote in 2013 a <a href="https://jeltsch.org/en/permission_to_self_archive/">two part review about lymphangiogenesis in German</a> and I was shocked to see, that it had not been cited at all since. In order to make it available for a broader audience, we translated it now into English. Given the fact, that the average article gets <a href="http://www.scottbot.net/HIAL/?p=22108" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">about 4 citations&nbsp; <svg class="svg-inline--fa fas fa-up-right-from-square fa-2xs" fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" role="img" viewBox="0 0 512 512" overflow="visible"><use href="#fas-up-right-from-square"></use></svg></a> altogether, we need only to be cited five times to be above average…</p>