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The examination of three samples of geological scientific publications: (A) 9 journals from Western Europe and USA; (B) 10 up-to-date review books, and (C) 3 sections of Volume 127 (1990–1991) of theZoological Record, shows that the statement that English is now the lingua franca in geological sciences is only in part true, but reflects a desire by many people in the scientific community, a desire which may not yet have been fulfilled
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The journals analyzed are: (AAPG)American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Tulsa. Oklahoma, USA. (BSGF)Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, Société Géologique de France. Paris, France. (EGH)Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, Schweizerischen geologischen Gesellschaft. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, Switzerland. (EG)Estudios Geológicos. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, C. S. I. C. Madrid, Spain. (GR)Geologische Rundschau, Geologischen Vereinigung. Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany. (JGSL)Journal of the Geological Society, London, The Geological Society, The University Press, Belfast, UK. (RIPS)Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Dipartimento di Scienze, della Terra, Milano, Italy. (ENG)Engineering Geology, Elsevier, Amsterdam, London, New York, Tokio. (RPP)Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Elsevier, Amsterdam, London, New York, Tokio.
The books analyzed are:P. A. Allison, D. E. G. Briggs (Eds),Taphonomy: Releasing the Data Locked in the Fossil Records, New York, Plenum Press, 1991, 560 pp.
M. J. Clark (Ed),Advances in Periglacial Geomorphology, Chichester, Wiley, 1988, 480 pp.
J. M. Cubbit, R. A. Reyment (Eds),Quantitative Stratigraphic Correlation, Chichester, Wiley, 1982, 301 pp.
S. K. Donovan (Ed.),The Processes of Fossilization, London, Belhaven Press, 1991, 303 pp.
K. J. Hsü (Ed),Mountation Building Procesess, London, Academic Press, 1982, 263 pp.
H. L. Kleinspehn, C. Paola (Eds),New Perspectives in Basin analysis New York, Springer, 1988 453 pp.
B. O. Mysen (Ed.),Magmatic Processes: Physicochemical Principles, Geochemical Society, 1987, 500 pp.
J. P. Schaer, J. Rodgers (Eds),The Anatomy of Mountain Ranges, Princeton, Princeton Univ. Press, 1987, 289 pp.
R. S. Thorpe (Ed.),Orogenic Andesites and Related Rocks, Chichester, Wiley, 1982, 724 pp.
M. J. Tooley, I. Shennan (Eds),Sea-level Changes, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1987, 397 pp
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Reguant, S., Casadellà, J. English as lingua franca in geological scientific publications. A bibliometric analysis. Scientometrics 29, 335–351 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02033444
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