(36~39) The problem of accurately assessing the role of English in contemporary research was identified in the 1994 text as residing in the pro-Western and pro-Anglophone bias in the major databases. __36__ that suggested that the role of English had been exaggerated. These studies apparently indicated that “a more accurate percentage for English would be around 50% rather than 80%.” __37__ that over the last thirty years many leading European (and Japanese) journals have switched from publishing in German, French, Swedish, Japanese, etc., to new editorial policies that increasingly require submissions written in English. The prevalence of using English on research publications had been irresistible since the late twentieth century. __38__ which by 1977 had changed their titles and editorial policies from German to English. More recently, comparable accounts have been produced for German chemistry (Wood, 2001), Swedish medical research (Gunnarsson, 1998), and French geology (Dressen, 2002). This new data, plus studies showing the increasing anglicization of doctoral dissertations in many countries, now suggests that the figure of 80% may be more accurate than previously believed by most scholars. __39__ especially in situations where local concerns and interests encourage publication in local languages. Re-Rocha & Martin-Sempere (1999), for example, have shown this to be the case for earth scientists in Spain. As ever, further research is necessary.