Timeline for Citing papers that are in a language that you do not read
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| Apr 14 at 17:04 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Stefan Kohl♦ | ||
| S Apr 12 at 22:08 | history | suggested | feetwet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2012 at 15:20 | comment | added | Zsbán Ambrus | Get a coauthor that can read mathematics in that language and teach you? | |
| Jul 23, 2012 at 0:59 | answer | added | paul garrett | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 22, 2012 at 21:10 | history | edited | Suvrit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2010 at 12:37 | answer | added | Spiro Karigiannis | timeline score: 14 | |
| Oct 22, 2010 at 11:43 | comment | added | Simon Wadsley | If you cannot read the paper but another paper explains what is says can you not adopt the phrasing 'x records in [1] that y proved in [2] that...' or something similar. | |
| Oct 22, 2010 at 10:43 | comment | added | darij grinberg | Actually why not cite both the original and the translation? And if there is none, translate it? Oh I forgot, morons rule over the copyrights... | |
| Oct 22, 2010 at 9:46 | vote | accept | Suvrit | ||
| Oct 22, 2010 at 9:43 | comment | added | Suvrit | Actually I do speak, read etc. German; and I believe I can guess fairly well what something written in French means. But, I would still not want to sacrifice precision that can only come if you really know the language. @Angelo: no, it is not a FOAF; from my own experience. | |
| Oct 22, 2010 at 9:29 | comment | added | Angelo | Have you ever had a reviewer writing that you should not be citing papers in a language different from English, or has it happened to a friend of a friend? Whoever writes something like this is a moron. I cite papers I have never read all the time. | |
| Oct 22, 2010 at 9:10 | comment | added | KConrad | Oh dear, then the reviewer is even crazier than I imagined. I thought we might have been talking about a reference in, say, Japanese. French is the easiest second mathematical language to read if you already know English but not yet any of French, German, or Russian (the other main mathematical languages, at least as represented on the traditional lists of choices for language exams in graduate school in the US). Ignore the reviewer's remarks, and if you're concerned then ask the editor you are in correspondence with about such remarks. | |
| Oct 22, 2010 at 9:08 | answer | added | Olivier | timeline score: 51 | |
| Oct 22, 2010 at 9:07 | comment | added | Robin Chapman | Many authors cite papers they have never seen, let alone never read :-) | |
| Oct 22, 2010 at 9:01 | comment | added | Chandan Singh Dalawat | reviewers write back that I should not be citing papers in a language different from English ??? | |
| Oct 22, 2010 at 8:55 | comment | added | Suvrit | You already guessed it: French. I've had this difficulty before, but this time, I really wanted to carefully read and accurately summarize and cite: J.-J. Moreau, Fonctions convexes en dualite, Seminaire de Mathematiques de la Faculte des Sciences de Montpellier, no. 1, 1962. This paper has been well-summarized by several experts, but before I have the "right" to cite it, I'd better have read it! | |
| Oct 22, 2010 at 8:37 | comment | added | KConrad | What mystery language are we talking about which you want to cite a paper in but can't understand? | |
| Oct 22, 2010 at 8:37 | comment | added | KConrad | It's crazy not to cite papers in a language other than English. What area of math are we talking about? Of course if the paper later appeared in English translation you could cite the translation instead, but lots of stuff in French, say, has never been translated into English. | |
| Oct 22, 2010 at 8:15 | history | asked | Suvrit | CC BY-SA 2.5 |