Scientific articles by authors of several countries over world total, 2005*
United States 28.94
Japan 7.82
United Kingdom 6.42
Germany 6.22
China 5.86
France 4.27
Canada 3.64
Italy 3.47
Spain 2.58
Korea 2.31
Australia 2.25
India 2.06
Russia 2.03
Netherlands 1.96
Taiwan 1.53
Sweden 1.41
Brazil 1.39
Switzerland 1.23
Source: National Science Foundation, Science & Engineering Indicators, 2008.
*By country and not by language.
Scientific journals by language
language number of titles and percentage of total
English 28,131 titles, 45.24%
German 6,848 11.01%
Chinese (Mandarin) 4,047 6.51%
Spanish 3,522 5.66%
French 3,074 4.94%
Japanese 2,149 3.46%
Italian 1,860 2.99%
Polish 1,060 1.7%
Portuguese 1,055 1.7%
Dutch 922 1.48%
Russian 808 1.3%
Source: Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, "academic/scholarly" section, 2007.
It's the "the most comprehensive directory available worldwide".
2 comments:
Interesting stats. I wonder how these rankings will change within the next generation!
heya! i've seen the Larousse gastronomique before at the library, it's definitly on my "will buy eventually" list!
and the other book is a book i definitely want to read one day! thank you for the heads up :)
PS, for language learning, have you heard of http://www.euronews.net/ ? It's got videos about current events in several different languages as well as transcripts to go with them. So they are short, and you can jump to the same video, in a different language, to test your comprehension!
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