Editorial 1 Tribologie + Schmierungstechnik · volume 71 · issue 1/ 2024 DOI 10.24053/ TuS-2024-0001 Over the years we have published more and more articles in English and have decided from volume 71 onwards to publish the entire journal in the globally most used language. Besides the necessity to gain a higher impact factor and thus more citations for our authors it was also the German Tribological Societies Technical Advisory Board that was in favour of that decision. Publications purely in the German language become rarer and rarer in the scientific and industrial world. Offering tribological research and technology in the centre of Europe to a broader audience will benefit readers and authors. And yes, there is always a downside to a decision. Reading a journal in your mother tongue is more comfortable compared to a foreign language. Personally, I remember very well back in my university time during the third semester when my professor for Physical Chemistry chose a book in English to accompany his class. Initially he was not very popular among us students, in the end I conducted my doctorate studies at his institute and read more English books and articles. My next encounter with English in the professional world was back in 1988 as I started to work for a multinational company at a smaller site in Germany. Back then to me it was great to communicate via a main frame computer to share calendars and write emails - the younger ones amongst us probably do not know why I’m mentioning that. My German colleagues were questioning me why I would write the emails in English. The easy answer is I wanted colleagues around the globe to be able to read them. Since having taken over the editorship with Volume 66 in 2019 we introduced the possibility to read the journal online besides the print version, added the peer review process as well as open access option and started publishing two extra E-only issues per year. Thus, switching to English is the next logical step toward a leading tribology journal. We will keep the name “Tribologie und Schmierungstechnik” and add the subtitle “Tribology - Lubrication Friction Wear”. As we are in the transition phase, we will also change the sections patents and standards to English. Tribology relevant reviews of German Patent publications and DIN’s Beuth Verlag will be complimented with publications of the European Patent Office and ISO. At the end of this editorial, I would like to point out that in 2020 expert verlag started the quarterly journal “Schmierstoff und Schmierung”, which is a publication dealing with application engineering in German language only with mother tongue comfort. Enjoy studying this issue and remember Tribology is everywhere. Your editor-in-chief Manfred Jungk “Tribologie und Schmierungstechnik” goes International!