Letters to the editor: Still vigorous after all these years?

Magnet, Anne; Carnet, Didier

doi:10.1016/j.esp.2005.03.004

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“…As well as exploring Shang Que articles in science, engineering and medicine (as has been done with Letters to the Editor in English-language journals, e.g. Magnet and Carnet, 2006; Van Leeuwen et al. , 2007; Anstey, 2014; Nuzzo, 2021), we also consider Shang Que articles in the social sciences and humanities, and further explore what Chinese scholars discuss in such articles.…”

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“…Academic publications represented by journals are typically characterized as evidence-based and impartial, but their format provides a useful tool for expert debate. Letters to the Editor, correspondence, comment and other discussion articles all contribute to carefully mediated explorations of academic contention (Magnet and Carnet, 2006; Chen, 2016), making them an important component of traditional formal academic communication.…”

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“…Bibliometric research on academic contention has tended to focus on trends observable in Letters to the Editor and correspondences in English-language medical journals (Magnet and Carnet, 2006; Van Leeuwen et al. , 2007).…”

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A Chinese academic tradition examined in the context of international academic communication: exploratory research into Shang Que articles

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PurposeAcademic contention occurs when research evidence is amenable to more than one interpretation. China has a long tradition of Shang Que (商榷), in which authors argue for their preferred interpretation. The modern form of this tradition is the Shang Que article, which often takes the form of research papers in Chinese-language journals and which tends to be question-oriented. Shang Que articles usually take the views of a particular author or article as the focus of independent and complete criticism by another, independent, academic. This paper explains the role of Shang Que articles in Chinese scholarship and their influence on international academia.Design/methodology/approachA bibliometric analysis was used to explore the characteristics and evolution of Chinese Shang Que articles using 30,577 articles published between 1979 and 2018. Microsoft Excel and Gephi were used for data analysis and visualization.FindingsFindings suggest a decline in the number of Shang Que articles and an increase in the number of co-authors. Shang Que articles remained particularly prominent in Philosophy and Humanities and Social Sciences, where they focused on local issues such as classical Chinese, the Sinicization of Marxism and Chinese literature. This suggests that the number of Shang Que articles is related to the degree of internationalization of a research field.Originality/valueShang Que articles, which have been influenced by academic paradigms in English, are a fusion of China's Shang Que tradition and of the modern academic system. Through considering Shang Que articles, this paper explores the benefits of local academic traditions in non-English-speaking cultures.

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