Review of Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries (original) (raw)

Ch. 1 introduces the study's methodology and organization and explains the exigency prompting the study. Powerful contributors to that exigency are the increasing dominance of English-medium research journals among those indexed by the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) in its Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and, concomitantly, the increasing practice of using these indexes to evaluate the performance of individual scholars, their departments, ...