j The transfer (A) of publication activity from non-SCI The transition from a national science model in which the national language is used for publications and other to SCI journals ( i.e., toward internationally visible communications, to a transnational model in which a journals ) ; single international language (English) is used and the j the transfer (B) of publication activity from non-Enmarket is dominated by Anglo-Saxon publishers, has glish to English language (respectively, from non-U.S./ continued in recent decades. The transition was still in U.K. to U.S./ U.K. publishers ) with respect to SCI progress for some countries and disciplines throughout journals; the period examined here (1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992). The transition j the transfer (C) from low-impact to high impact jourprocess was analyzed in terms of the Science Citation nals, mostly within the mainstream of English-language Index database, first by assessing direct manifestations SCI journals (published in U.S./U.K.
journals). through specific indicators, and then by checking increases in performance by considering transition as a global process. The number of publications and citations
Hence, all things being equal, an efficient transition is followed the expected trend, whereas changes in impact likely to have a positive influence on classical perforappear to have been governed by non-transition factors. mances indicators, namely the publication volume and the citation volume measured in the SCI (through transfer journals (part 1);