How Could International Scientific Communication Be Made Fairer and More Efficient?

I) One aspect of globalization is the emergence of one single global lingua franca of science, English. It has advantages for all scientists as well as for mankind as a whole in that it enhances international scientific cooperation and thus accelerates scientific progress. II) The preference for the global lingua franca is stronger in the pure or theoretical sciences than in the applied sciences or especially the humanities. III) Scientists are forced to use the global lingua franca if they want to follow new scientific developments or make their own contributions known internationally. IV) The global lingua franca of science (and also of other fields) is the native tongue of a minority, the Anglophones, and a foreign tongue for the majority of the global scientific community. This entails various notable asymmetries. V) One of these asymmetries is the Anglophone-centered flow of information, since Anglophones communicate almost exclusively in English and ...