THE TRANSITION FROM NATIONAL TO TRANSNATIONAL MODEL AND RELATED MEASURES OF COUNTRIES PERFORMANCE

The transition from a national science model in which the national lan guage is used for publications and other communications, to a transnat ional model in which a single international language (English) is used and the market is dominated by Anglo-Saxon publishers, has continued in recent decades. The transition was still in progress for some count ries and disciplines throughout the period examined here (1981-1992). The transition process was analyzed in terms of the Science Citation I ndex database, first by assessing direct manifestations through specif ic indicators, and then by checking increases in performance by consid ering transition as a global process, The number of publications and c itations followed the expected trend, whereas changes in impact appear to have been governed by non-transition factors.