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Figure 1. Percentage of non-English papers and year-wise percentage of non-English papers to the
total number of published papers.
Figure 2. Year-wise publication trend in non-English papers between 2005 and 2014.
also been an increase in the number of that one language is more scientific than NITIN KUMAR
Spanish and Portuguese papers. Japanese others but this decline of non-English YATISH PANWAR*
and Russian language papers have main- languages and the rise of English is due G. M AHESH
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