It appears strange to us, but one hundred years ago the lingua franca of science was German.
Image by Michael JeltschIt 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
two part review about lymphangiogenesis in German
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
about 4 citations
altogether, we need only to be cited five times to be above average…
