English speakers tend to assume that all the important research is published in English.
More than half of the non-English papers observed in this study had no English title, abstract or keywords, making them all but invisible to most scientists doing database searches in English. […] This problem is a two-way street Not only does the larger scientific community miss out on research published in non-English languages. But the dominance of English as science’s lingua franca makes it more difficult for researchers and policy makers speaking non-English languages to take advantage of science that might help them. —Smithsonian
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This is a big point I have to make with my ESL students who assume the world is their oyster once they can read English. It’s so difficult to explain sometimes.