Citation of non-English peer review publications – some Chinese examples
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Articles published in English language journals with citations of non-English peer reviewed materials are not very common today. However, as epidemiologists are becoming more aware of data and information being readily available and accessible in the non-English literature, the question of whether non-English materials can be cited in English language journals and if so, how should they be cited, has become an increasingly important issue. Bringing together personal insights from the author's familiarity with both the English and Chinese language epidemiological literature and results from a survey on the use of citations of non-English peer reviewed materials across a sample of epidemiology and public health journals, this commentary discusses the different ways authors cite non-English articles in different English language journals and the different methods used by journals to handle non-Latin scripts (e.g. transliteration). This commentary will be useful to both epidemiologists and editors alike.
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Non-English publications are, in general, less accessible to authors, much less cited in the literature, and are thus less likely to be known to the global scientific community at large.
“Unfortunately, non-English publications are, in general, less accessible to authors, much less cited in the literature, and are thus less likely to be known to the global scientific community at large. 69”
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- Authors
- Fung, I. C.
- Venue
- Emerging Themes in Epidemiology
- Published
- 2008-09-30
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 12-12
- ISSN
- 1742-7622 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2570362
- OpenAlex
- W2033090918
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 4.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Emerging Themes in Epidemiology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Spiral (Imperial College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Royal Society
- Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Instytut Chemii Fizycznej PAN
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Academic Writing and Publishing
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Keywords
- transliteration, Chinese-language literature, epidemiology journals, public health journals, citation practices, journal editorial policy, non-Latin scripts
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