Through the international language of scientific communication, English language journals provide a platform for Chinese (and foreign) scientists with a broad international readership. Hopefully, some of these journals will manage to receive their impact factors from JCR. However, by switching to English and internationalising their scope (e.g. by dropping the word 'Chinese' from their titles), they face severe competition from their counterparts in North America and Europe. Nevertheless, there are a few successes so far, like Cell Research and the World Journal of Gastroenterology: WJG [49] that are now indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded and MEDLINE. As the Chinese share of the world's scientific output increases and as Chinese scientists become more fluent in English, more English language biomedical journals published in China will receive their limelight in the international arena. For further discussion, please refer to Appendix 3.