English is the lingua franca of academia. Although China's scientific and technological development has made great progress, the scientific and technological discourse is still in the hands of the English-speaking world. The division of labor in foreign scientific fields is more detailed, and there are more kinds of journals. The number of Chinese journals entering SCI is still very small, and they are also published in English. The final step in scientific or academic research is publication and dissemination. Writing and publishing in English is to make their academic achievements better disseminated and recognized by the international academic community.
Some friends of the civil science Department are often angry that domestic experts do not recognize their original achievements, and believe that the domestic academic community is deliberately persecuting and ignoring them. I think that the domestic did not find bole, may be China's lack of experts in the corresponding field or problem, after all, the professional and field division of labor is becoming more and more detailed, to find the right professional small peers is not easy. Personally, that is, in terms of the current situation, the professional division of labor of domestic journals is still not fine enough, and some articles if not invested in foreign languages, really do not know where to publish. It is also true that Chinese journals pay more attention to factors other than the paper itself, such as the author's origin, status, title or institution of service. It does not rule out that domestic experts have a psychological rejection of civil science. Or whether Minke's own supposedly original work deserves to be taken seriously. At the very least, even if published in domestic Chinese journals, there is still a distance from academic recognition. Because the academic community is in principle the most globalized field, or the academic community refers to the international academic community (we say that the basic science only has the first place, there is no second place, or as the famous physicist Ding Zhaozhong said, "the most important discovery in natural science, only the first place, no second or third place", referring to the global academic community. Not in terms of a country). However, it is also a fact that the international academic community often ignores non-English academic literature due to linguistic factors. Therefore, to gain academic recognition, it is generally necessary to publish in English.
Ordinary people have the psychology of "thickening the past and thin the present", "expensive far and cheap near", so there is a saying such as "foreign monks are good to chant sutras", "flowers in the wall and incense outside the wall". Publishing one's academic work in English in international academic journals has this effect. If a friend of Minke has "no song, no surprise; The idea of "no fly, no fly" needs to be published in English.